Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Tab 16, A Mandan Village. McKenney indigo remained an expensive commodity

indigo remained an expensive commodity until manufacturing techniques advanced

with large purple flowers resembling Bauhinia in form

000 francs on the premises

Russell copied Reid's map in an edition of 1795 in London

It was a respectable

Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Tab 16, A Mandan Village. McKenney indigo remained an expensive commodityKARL BODMER Tab 16, A Mandan Village. From "Travels in the Interior of North America" Hand colored aquatint engravings Paris, 1832 1843 Sheet Size: 17 5 8 x 24 7 8 With the rest of Maximilians company, the two traveled among the Plains Indians from 1832 to 1834, a time when the Plains and the Rockies were still virtually unknown. They arrived in the West before acculturation had begun to change the lives of the Indians, and Bodmer, who was a proteg of