Landscape with Buffalo on the Upper Missouri
Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Landscape with Buffalo on the Upper Missouri

Landscape with Buffalo on the Upper Missouri

Karl Bodmer • 1833
Medium Watercolor on paper
Current Location Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

Buffalo herds along the Upper Missouri River in what was Gros Ventres, Assiniboin, Cree, and Crow country (present-day North Dakota/Montana). Documents the same vast landscape Lewis and Clark traversed, teeming with wildlife.

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