Cliffs on the Missouri

Description

On August 3 the keelboat navigated Dauphin Rapid some twenty miles above Cow Creek near the modern Cow Island Landing within today's Missouri Breaks Wild and Scenic River section of the Missouri. On August 5 it passed the mouth of the Judith River. The next day Maximilian again remarked upon the strange landscape of the region and noted another of Bodmer's renderings when he wrote, "In this region there were again the strangest formations, like fortresses, a church with two towers, etc. (for the latter see sketch DD)." Earlier on August 2, Maximilian had referred to a sketch of cliffs along the Missouri which he identified by the letters CC. This is the uppermost of a series of views on the same sheet of paper that also includes sketch DD.