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Book Review
| Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection. By W. Raymond Wood, Joseph C. Porter, and David C. Hunt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. ix + 164 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00.)
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Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied's 1833–1834 record of his experiences on the upper reaches of the Missouri River have often been praised for their exacting descriptions of the peoples, flora, fauna, and topography that he encountered. His published accounts of his travel were accompanied by the distinctive and detailed engravings prepared by Karl Bodmer, and these provided the most ethnographically correct illustrations made of the peoples of the Upper Missouri in the nineteenth century. |
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