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Chapel At Catteragas
The first mission to the Lamanites began by missionaries contacting Indians on what is today the Catteragas Indian reservation, just south of Buffalo, New York. A Ward chapel today reminds one the importance that this place has in Church history. The area is traversed by a healthy stream of water known as Catteragas Creek, and it may have anciently been in the Land of Helam, a land of pure water.

Allegheny Forest
Northwestern Pennsylvania contains lands that today are set aside as National Forests. Anciently, these forests covered much of southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. In Book of Mormon days, the Nephites quite likely used wood of the forests to build their cities. Wood was plentiful and stone was not. Thus these wooden cities were easily burned, leaving behind ashes that have since been scattered and buried in time, offering no archaeological record of Nephite cities.

South And West Of Letchworth
These lands seem to make a good candidate for the land of Minon, which were vertically, not northward, above the Land of Zarahemla, in the course to the land of Nephi which lay further south and west. These lands lie just west and south of the area of Letchworth State Park, in higher elevation to lands northward in valleys of the Genesee River, that the ancient land of Zarahemla may have included.

The South Wilderness
South of the headwaters of the Genesee River are found steep and rolling hills. Anciently they were covered with heavy forests, thus making travel through them difficult. Book of Mormon accounts relate that the Lamanites typically made their journeys east and west through these southern areas to avoid detection by the Nephites. These areas probably formed a southern wilderness, southward from the head of the River Sidon.

Kinzua Reservoir
The Allegheny River flows northward, and then southward, out of the state of New York. Near Warren, Pennsylvania, the Allegheny River is dammed and forms the Kinzua Reservoir, shown in this picture. To the east of Warren, the Allegheny is joined by another stream of water, the Conewango that flows from the north. Thus these two streams form a "Y," wherein lies a land in between. Thus these lands make a good candidate for the land of Middoni, spoken of in Book of Mormon accounts. Mention is made of going "up" (north) to the Land of Nephi, and "down" (south) to the land of Middoni.