Bijoux Hills on the Missouri

Description

The Yellow Stone again moved upriver on May 22. Shortly after noon it approached the Bijoux Hills, in the present state of South Dakota. According to Maximilian, who mentioned in his journal that Bodmer made a watercolor view of these hills, they were named for a clerk of the American Fur Company who had spent several winters in this area and had later moved upriver to live among the Mandan Indians. Here the steamer again ran aground and for the rest of the day succeeded in moving only about a mile further upstream. Strong winds continued after dark, and the Yellow Stone once more spent the night stranded in the middle of the river.