Leland H. Monson's book, Life in Ancient America: A Study of the Book of Mormon, was a Sunday School manual printed in 1958. This book contains 131 pages and comprises 48 lessons that are made up of disparate blocks of chapters, beginning with 1 Nephi and proceeding through each book of scripture until ending with Moroni. For some undisclosed reason the Book of Ether is excluded from these lessons. Each lesson begins with a summary outline of the prominent events or teachings in the selected chapters and then proceeds to provide some commentary as well as posing a handful of "Questions and Problems." The outlines provide more information than typical chapter headers, but are selective in what is disclosed. Monson's commentary generally consists of a handful of paragraphs that tends to restate, to some extent, what was already summarized in the lesson outline, but also contains an occasional quotation from B.H. Roberts, or other notable profiles, such as John Henry Evans, Henry Drummond or Shelley. The questions/problems portion of each lesson are rather generalized and are primarily concerned with modern applicability.
