Banks of the Missouri

Description

Maximilian mentioned in his journal entry for May 15 that the Yellow Stone lay still until around four o'clock in the afternoon while its crew endeavored to shift it off a sandbank along the western side of the river channel. Strong winds and contrary currents complicated this procedure, and at one point the Yellow Stone was rolling so badly that, according to Maximilian, Bodmer could scarcely draw. Dated this same day is Bodmer's view of the steamer Assiniboine as seen a short distance downstream of the Yellow Stone below a high rampart of hills described by Maximilian as "rising one above another ... mostly without life or variety." The Assiniboine overtook the Yellow Stone at this place and continued upstream toward Fort Pierre.