Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Idols of the Mandan Indians Ethnographic Earlier English maps more generally

Earlier English maps more generally focused on the Mississippi River valley rather than the river itself

Europeans read avidly of the sights and experiences of  the voyage

The map shows an intricately detailed coastline and terrain stretching from just north of the 54th parallel

but this multi-stone color lithograph was printed by Bachman himself

this is so much superior in size to the rest that it bears to them the same proportion as a Golden Eagle to a Goshawk

Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Idols of the Mandan Indians Ethnographic Earlier English maps more generallyKARL BODMER From Travels in the Interior of North America Hand colored aquatint engravings Paris, 1832 1843 Sheet Size: 24 3 4 x 18 THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOK ON AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. Karl Bodmer was a little known Swiss painter when he was chosen by Prince Maximilian of Prussia to accompany his voyage to America, in order to document in pictorial terms the expedition. With the rest of Maximilians company, the two traveled among