One of a Kind Book of Mormon Stolen from Brigham Young

Recently, a pair of malicious drunken dumb-bells climbed the small gate at Brigham Young's family cemetery, (Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument), in Salt Lake City Utah, and successfully removed the finely crafted bronze Book of Mormon from the hand of a Brigham Young statue that features the early Mormon leader reading to two of his children.

Two men were quickly apprehended and arrested for larceny and public intoxification. The bronze replica of an early Book of Mormon has been returned to the LDS Church, meanwhile, Brigham's outreached right hand remains empty.

I took this photo October of 2008, a year before the beautiful bronze book was broken from Brigham's hand by 26-year-old Parley Mortensen and 26-year-old Stewart Bodenstab.