Often, many students of the Book of Mormon see the reference of a land northward that was scare of trees.
Helaman 3:9 And the people who were in the land northward did dwell in tents, and in houses of cement, and they did suffer whatsoever tree should spring up upon the face of the land that it should grow up, that in time they might have timber to build their houses, yea, their cities, and their temples, and their synagogues, and their sanctuaries, and all manner of their buildings.
As individuals are trying to determine what land the Book of Mormon was referring to, I would like to point out this paragraph written in 1851 by the Ojibway chief known as G. Copway – Chief of the Ojibway Nation in the book called The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation on Page 20.
Whether or not this is the land Helaman is referring to is uncertain. But to me it fits the description.
