Encampment of the Travellers on the Missouri

by Karl Bodmer

$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

From the scarce Leipzig edition printed from the original copper-plates. Limited in number, the prints from the Leipzig edition are more scarce than, and compare favorably to, the first edition. David C. Hunt, Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier, Imprint/Spring 85, p.18 As the travellers journyed back down the Missouri River from Fort Union to Fort Clark 30 October to 8 November 1833 , they were forced to occasionally bivouac on the bank side. Here as night falls the

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