![]() Maximilian and Bodmer arrived just in time to record the landscapes and cultures that would soon be irrevocably altered. ![]() As fur traders penetrated farther up the Missouri River and western migration along the Oregon Trail commenced, the end of an era for the Plains Indian began. ![]() The years of Maximilian's expedition were pivotal in American history. This book was illustrated with eighty-one aquatints, the work of Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), a young Swiss artist, who accompanied Maximilian on his journey. The description of this journey, Travels in the Interior of North America, published after his return to Europe, provided one of the most significant collections of ethnological information available concerning the nineteenth-century American Plains Indian. ![]() Wied, Maximillian, Prince von (1782-1867) Bodmer, Karl (1809-1893)Ībout the Karl Bodmer Collection During the years 1832 to 1834, the German naturalist Prince Maximilian zu Wied led an expedition to the Upper Missouri region of North America. Request archival file or update item information Title ![]()
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