Mouth of the Platte River

Description

The Yellow Stone passed the mouth of the Platte on the morning of May 3. In his journal entry for the day, Maximilian indicated that the Platte had two mouths and that the first was "separated from the second and larger mouth by a small island." Bodmer's view of the river mouth probably represents the larger of the two channels opening into the Missouri. This afternoon, the travelers reached Bellevue, Major Dougherty's post on the river below present-day Omaha, Nebraska.