Tower-Rock view on the Mississippi

by Karl Bodmer

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A rare India proof depicting the traveller's Ohio paddle-steamer and three Mississippi keel-boats, a form of freight transportation that, by the 1830s, was fast being replaced by the steamers. Bodmer and Prince Maximilian set out for St.Louis from Mount Vernon on 18 March 1833 making their way rapidly down the River Ohio and joining the Mississippi on 20 March. On the afternoon of 21 March 1833 their steamer approached a feature known as the Grand Tower or Tower-Rock , which

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