Bend of the Missouri River - 1798

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[Bend of the Missouri River]

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[1798]

NOTES
Pen-and-ink.
Annotated in pencil: Bend of the Missouri, Long. 101 25"-Lat. 47 32" by Mr. Thomson, astronmer to the N.W.
Company in 1798.
On verso: A sketch of the north bend of the Missourie River.
Gives number of warriors, houses and tents of six Mandan and Pawnee Indian villages in the vicinity of the
junction of the Missouri and Knife Rivers.