For millennia before the Book of Mormon’s father Lehigh set sail westward, wheels were commonplace throughout the Near, Middle, and Far East.

It seems to me that, soon after making landfall and dragging sea chests and portmanteaus up some alien strand, one of the castaways would exclaim, “We need wheelbarrows.  We need wagons.  We need wheels!”  And set to work crafting the requisite parts!

Curiously, over the past five centuries no wheel or evidence of a wheel predating Columbus—not a broken rim, splintered spoke, pictograph—has been found in the Western Hemisphere.

I have to wonder.