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Benjamin O'Fallon, after William Clark
Lewis and Clark's Special Map of the Missouri River, pages 20 and 27
1832
watercolor and ink on paper
William Clark served as the mapmaker for the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–06, during which he made a series of route maps of each turn of the Missouri River. Later, he became the territorial governor of the northern part of the Louisiana Territory, with his headquarters in St. Louis. Clark had taken a liking to Prince Maximilian and he asked his nephew, Benjamin O'Fallon, to make copies of his original maps. His gift of this album of route maps was a singular show of respect for Maximilian and Bodmer, reminiscent of Humboldt's generosity in sharing his map of North America with Jefferson in 1804. Prince Max used these maps as he traveled up the Missouri River, annotating several pages with his own observations.
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