[OLD NORTHWEST TERRITORY]. BRECK, JAMES LLOYD, Missionary. Five autograph letters (4 signed, "J. Lloyd Breck") to Rev. Theodore B. Lyman ("my dear brother") and "Cousin Mary," Mission House, St. Paul, Minnesota, and "Steamboat...on Upper Mississippi," 7 May 1832 to 13 August 1830 - 5 June 1832, Together 43 full pages, 8vo, closely written, two incomplete, A MISSIONARY ON THE WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA FRONTIER. Highly unusual first-hand narratives by a Christian missionary to the Indians, with vivid descriptions of Native American life and the trials of missionary endeavor. Breck is pleased that "...I am again on the Great Frontier...," and writes of the Nashotah mission in Wisconsin, which he founded: "Nashotah, as a School of the Prophets, is all important for that immense valley of the Mississippi..." In Minnesota, near Fort Snelling, "..we are just three Clergymen & one divinity student, on the banks of the great (upper) Mississippi, upon the very verge of civilization. From our window we see the high bluffs of the western shore of the Father of Waters, where the savage (Sioux) ranges...In six weeks, we have succeeded, through the help of God, in establishing stations for Divine Services at St. Paul...Stillwater on the St. Croix; Willow-River settlement; the Falls of St. Anthony; Cottage Grove; Point Douglas & Prairie La Crosse....We perform all of our journeys on foot....We...purchased two acres of land to the rear of St. Paul...where we encamped in a Tent...during the building of a very small house..." At an Indian settlement 150 miles North of St. Paul at Gull Lake, "we had arrived here in the midst of the Indians' extravagant preparations for the vernal Indian Dance...the High Mass of Pagan worship!" Their interpreter went "through the Indian village" to "notify the chiefs & Warriors that the Praying Father (the name employed by the Chippewas...) had come...Their monstrous drum...was beating in a wigwam near us..." Breck describes in detail the meeting of the tribal Council, and chief White Fisher, who agreed to the establishment of a mission at the lake. In another letter he is pleased to report that one Chippewa, Hole in the Day," is desirous of embracing Christianity...he is to have his oldest wife, the two others he is to separate from." -- BRECK. Autograph letter signed to Lyman, "Missionary College of St. Augustine," Benicia, California, 23 June 1870. 4 pages, 8vo -- COLE, A.D. Autograph letter signed ("A.D. Cole") to Lyman, Wisconsin, 6 June 1864, 3 pages, 8vo, Written from the Nashotah Mission in Wisconsin, founded by Breck, describing his work at the mission. Together seven items. (7)