Ruins of Fort Atkinson

Description

The travelers departed Cabanne's post on May 5 and continued upriver toward the abandoned military post of Fort Atkinson in the vicinity of present Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. Maximilian recorded in his journal that "of the ruins of the fort abandoned here in 1827 there now stand only the walled chimneys, and in the middle a stone storehouse under a roof." Although identified by its inscription as a view of the ruins of Fort Atkinson, Bodmer's study of the river at this point includes no obvious architectural details by which one might distinguish the site.