Citadel Rock on the Upper Missouri

Description

On the afternoon of August 6 the keelboat approached one of the more prominent landmarks on the banks of the Missouri in the region of the Stone Walls. Lewis and Clark had described it early in the century, but did not name it. In Bodmer's day it was known among the traders as La Citadelle, or Citadel Rock, and later as Cathedral Rock. Today it is a state monument. Bodmer's view of this formation was reproduced as Vignette XVIII in the atlas of aquatints that accompanied the publication of Maximilian's travel account in 1839-43.