Remarkable Hills on the upper Missouri

by Karl Bodmer

$800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A rare India proof of this composite plate made up from nine separate views, but with plain borders between each image. Numbered in the plate from 1 to 9 they were all sketched during the journey up river aboard the 60-foot keelboat Flora. Prince Maximilian and his party left Fort Union on 6 July and eventually arrived at Fort McKenzie on 9 August 1833 traveling through a number of different regions including the Mauvaises Terres and the Stone Walls e.g. Nos. 2, 6 and others in the present

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