Anonymous source published in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society describing motive behind the Kinderhook Plates hoax.
"A Hoax: Reminiscences of an Old Kinderhook Mystery," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 5, no. 2 (July 1912): 271.
The object of the men preparing the plates is supposed to be their desire to bolster up the visionary plans of Joseph Smith, and to lead the unsuspecting public to follow him.