A Stop; Evening Bivouac

Description

On October 30 Maximilian's party left Fort Union and headed downriver toward Fort Clark. On November 4 his journal entry mentions that at some point along the river, the travelers tied up and prepared to spend the night. It reads, "The evening approached. The sky was gray and gloomy and appeared to presage bad weather ... We shipped farther till about dusk and then landed on the right in the forest above the tall, steep bank... At midnight the sky turned clear and the wind cold...Mr. Bodmer had made a drawing of our bivouac last night."