The Elkhorn Pyramid on the Upper Missouri

by Karl Bodmer

$850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A rare India proof. In July 1833, between Forts Union and McKenzie, the keelboat Flora stopped to allow Maximilian and his party to examine a remarkable cairn of elk antlers on the prairie, just inland from the Missouri River. The ground in all directions was littered with the antlers cast during the bulls' annual shedding. Each Blackfoot hunting party had collected antlers as they passed, adding them to the growing pile, and sometimes marking them with red paint to indicate the number in the

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