View of the prairie, Meriwether Lewis
1805 CE • Chicago, IL
“I ascend to the top of the cut bluff this morning, from whence I had a most delightful view of the country . . . exposing to the first glance of the spectator immence heards of Buffaloe, Elk, deep, and Antelopes feeding in one common and boundless pasture."
Sourced from the Illinois State Museum, Changes: Dynamic Illinois Environments Exhibition
Image: Meriwether Lewis ; William Clark ; Nicholas Biddle ; Paul Allen. Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America.Digital image. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep. 1814. Web.
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