I loved this book growing up in the LDS church. Reading it as an adult, however, I came to realize that it is not a true history of the settling of the Americas. The book describes migrations to the Americas by people from the Tower of Babel and ancient Hebrews--claims that are contradicted by DNA studies, archaeology, and linguistics. It treats the confounding of the languages at the Tower of Babel as literal history, and is full of anachronisms that easily prove it to be a work of fiction based on 19th Century ideas about native Americans. For example, there are references to iron, steel, brass, metal pieces of money, wheat, horses, chariots, and elephants in an ancient American setting (approximately 2,400 BC to 400 AD) which are consistent with 19th Century rumors and theories, but simply do not fit within the catalog of scientific knowledge available today.