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| | #REDIRECT [[Question: Did Joseph Smith claim at one time that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold"?]] |
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| ==Criticism==
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| Critics make light of Joseph Smith's claim that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold."
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| ===Source(s) of the Criticism===
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| *{{CriticalWork:Brodie:No Man Knows|pages=199}}
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| *{{CriticalWork:Wyl:Mormon Portraits Volume First|pages=35}}
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| ==Response==
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| Whatever one thinks of Joseph's conduct in connection with the Kirtland Safety Society, this promise came true.
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| * Brigham Young redeemed Kirtland Safety Society scrip for gold in Utah.
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| * "Brigham Young needn't have gone to such pains to ensure that this prophecy was fulfilled. Today [1977] these notes are worth far more than the exchange rate between currency and gold."{{ref|hill.445}}
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| ==Endnotes==
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| #{{note|hill.445}} {{BYUS1|author=Marvin S. Hill, Keith C. Rooker and Larry T. Wimmer|article=The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics|vol=17|num=4|date=Summer 1977|start=445, and footnote 113}}{{pdflink|url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/Products/MoreInfoPage/MoreInfo.aspx?Type=7&ProdID=1457}}
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| ==Further reading==
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| ===FAIR wiki articles===
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| {{JSLegalWiki}}
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| {{JosephSmithWiki}}
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| ===FAIR web site===
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| {{JosephSmithFAIR}}
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| ===External links===
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| *{{BYUS1|author=Dale W. Adams|article=Chartering the Kirtland Bank|vol= 23|num=4|date=Fall 1983|start=467–482}}{{pdflink|url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/Products/MoreInfoPage/MoreInfo.aspx?Type=7&ProdID=885}}
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| *{{BYUS|author=Marvin S. Hill, Keith C. Rooker and Larry T. Wimmer|article=The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics|vol=17|num=4|date=Summer 1977|start=389|end=471}}{{pdflink|url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/Products/MoreInfoPage/MoreInfo.aspx?Type=7&ProdID=1457}}
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| *{{BYUS|author=Paul Sampson and Larry T. Wimmer|article=The Kirtland Safety Society: The Stock Ledger Book and the Bank Failure|vol=12|num=4|date=Summer 1972|start=427|end=436}}{{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/byustudies&CISOPTR=277&CISOSHOW=271&REC=2}}
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| *{{BYUS|author=Scott H. Partridge|article=The Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society|vol=12|num=4|date=Summer 1972|start=437|end=454}}{{pdflink|url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/Products/MoreInfoPage/MoreInfo.aspx?Type=7&ProdID=655}}
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| *Images of KSS scrip and other "Mormon Money"{{link|url=http://www.mormonmoney.com/}}
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| ===Printed material===
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| *{{StoryOfLDS|start=117|end=125}}
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| *{{HeavensResound|start=313|end=317}}
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| * {{UHQ|author=R. Kent Fielding|article=The Mormon Economy in Kirtland, Ohio,|vol=27|num=4|date=October 1959|start=331|end=356}}
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| * R. Kent Fielding, " The Growth of the Mormon Church in Kirtland, Ohio," PhD Dissertation, Indiana University, 1957.
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