Joseph Smith Shows Mosiah Hancock the Future on a Map — The Great Prophecy of the Rocky Mountain Settlement

The day after Joseph Smith's famous speech from the frame of his mansion in Nauvoo, the Prophet came to the Hancock home. Mosiah ran to get his map, and what followed was one of the most detailed and remarkable prophetic utterances recorded in pioneer literature:

'"Now," he said, "I will show you the travels of this people." He then showed our travels through Iowa, and said, "Here you will make a place for the winter; and here you will travel west until you come to the valley of the Great Salt Lake! You will build cities to the North and to the South, and to the East and to the West; and you will become a great and wealthy people in that land... There will be two great political parties in this country. One will be called the Republican, and the other the Democrat party. These two parties will go to war and out of these two parties will spring another party which will be the Independent American Party. The United States will spend her strength and means warring in foreign lands until other nations will say, \'Let\'s divide up the lands of the United States,\' then the people of the U.S. will unite and swear by the blood of their fore-fathers, that the land shall not be divided... when the boys from the mountains will rush forth in time to save the American Army from defeat and ruin."'

The prophecy about the Great Salt Lake settlement was precisely fulfilled. The naming of the Republican and Democrat parties — made before either existed under those names — is particularly striking.