Abstract

In 1833, as a boy of fifteen in the Quaker settlement of Salem, Ohio, Thomas Stanley was inspired to take up the missionary life based on discussions he overheard about a widely circulated letter, originally published in the March 1833 edition of the Chri

Keywords:

• Quaker,
• religion,
• Thomas Stanley,
• missionary,
• Christian Advocate and Journal,
• Salem,
• Ohio,
• Christian Wyandot,
• Native American,
• Indian,
• Nez Perce,
• Flathead,
• William Clark,
• Lewis and Clark,
• power,
• magical,
• nature,
• Big John Creek,
• Shawnee,
• Pearl Dixon,
• Merr