View of the Bluffs near Cedar Island

Description

Near Cedar Island on May 16, high winds and low water again delayed the steamer's progress upstream. At this place Maximilian reckoned that the Yellow Stone had traveled a little over a thousand miles from the mouth of the Missouri above St. Louis. The ship remained stationary through May 21 above Cedar Island on a section of the Missouri now permanently flooded by the Fort Randall Dam at Pickstown, South Dakota. Bodmer's view of the river bluffs in this vicinity was made between May 19 and 21 according to an inscription that may have been added later.