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8 unusual facts about Karl Bodmer


Assiniboine people

Images of Assiniboine people were painted by such 19th-century artists as Karl Bodmer and George Catlin.

Cave-in-Rock State Park

With the inauguration of steamboat traffic on the Ohio River in the 1810s, travelers such as artist Karl Bodmer bought tickets to steam up and down the river, and Cave-in-Rock has been a recognized landmark of river tourism ever since.

Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site

George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, and the German Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied all visited the site and stayed the winter of 1832-1833.

Gustav Sohon

Sohon's artistic abilities place him the same league with such other, better-known Western artists as George Catlin, Paul Kane, and Karl Bodmer.

History of Montana

Images of Assiniboine people were painted by such 19th century artists as Karl Bodmer and George Catlin.

Karl Bodmer

The Prince devotes a whole chapter of his book to New Harmony, its environs, and to the work and personalities of two leading American naturalists who lived there, Thomas Say and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur.

Wintering at Fort Clark near the Mandan villages, they continued downriver the following spring, having spent over a year on the Upper Missouri.

Mato-tope

Four Bears was a favorite subject of artists, painted by George Catlin and Karl Bodmer.



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