Once the crisis subdued and William Clayton dug up as documents again they might as well have remained buried they remain restricted for over 175 years. It wasnt until 2014. The lds church announced they were be making them available for the first time in published form. And dont forget to tell all of you that whenever there is a document or series of documents that are kept hidden and secret lots of legends and myths crop up around them. Over the century and a half there had been lots of myths about the Counsel Council of 50 and what took place in it. And this grew to legendary proportion until finally when they finally got access to the council some were disappointed by the content. Where was Justice Smith being crowned as a king or where were they ordering the assassination of the u. S. President. These were all things that were bandied about. Some people were disappointed in these records when they were finally released as a historian of American Religion and politics they were lik