(1833), of the Wyandot Indian tribe, wrote a letter to the Christian Advocate & Journal. He described his encountered with four Indians, one of the Flathead tribe and three of the Nez Perces tribe. They had traveled 3,000 miles to St. Louis, Missouri, because they heard that:
The white people away toward the rising sun had been put in possession of the true mode of worshipping the Great Spirit; they had a Book containing directions.2687