Fort Pierre on the Missouri

Description

Past the mouth of the White River and the Sioux agency at Fort Lookout on May 25, the Yellow Stone reached the Teton River on May 30 and stopped at Fort Pierre, named for Pierre Chouteau of the American Fur Company. Here 7,000 buffalo hides were loaded aboard the Yellow Stone for shipment downriver to St. Louis. Maximilian and his companions continued upriver toward Fort Clark on the steamer Assiniboine. Erected near the remains of an earlier abandoned post, Fort Pierre was at this time one of the largest settlements of the fur company on the Missouri. Bodmer's sketch of this place as observed from a distant rise was made on April 29, 1834, on the return voyage downriver. A finished rendering appeared as Tableau 10 in the atlas of aquatints published in Europe. The modern Pierre, South Dakota, now stands across the river from this site.