Landscape with Herd of Buffalo on the Upper Missouri

Description

Above Fort Union, game became plentiful and hunters from the boat were successful in supplying meat for passengers and crew. On July 10, four days out from Fort Union, buffalo appeared near the river and several were taken. On July 14 near the junction of Porcupine Creek below the mouth of the Milk River, more buffalo approached the banks and a white wolf was reported in the vicinity of the herd. Bodmer subsequently produced a landscape with buffalo grazing on the Missouri bottoms that includes the figure of a white wolf skulking in the lower left foreground. This was reproduced as Tableau 40 in the atlas of aquatints.