Maximilian spent the summer of 1833 on the upper Missouri. He was a shabby, toothless man, but of first-rate scientific ability. It is said that his accounts, together with Bodmer’s paintings, constitute an important record of the period.
Sir George Gore was a millionaire who spent two years in the West. He left a saga of ruthless slaughter and camp-life prodigality in his wake. His parting gesture was the destruction, by fire, of all the wagons, harness, saddles, and similar equipment. This was done to spite the Missouri Fur Company because of their exorbitant river transportation charges.
In 1871 the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia hunted bison on the Nebraska plains.
[168]Ibid., p. 572.
[169]Granville Stuart, Forty Years on the Frontier, edited by Paul C. Phillips (Cleveland: 1925), II, 104. This view was expressed by Representative James A. Garfield. See Congressional Record, Forty-third Congress, First Session, 1874, pp. 2107-9.
[170]Warren A. Ferris, op. cit., p. 244.
[171]Ibid., pp. 204-6.
[172]Dan E. Clark, The West in American History (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1937), p. 573.
[173]Fredrick L. Paxson, Recent American History of the United States (Boston: Prentice-Hall Co., 1937), p. 28.
[174]LeRoy R. Hafen and Carl G. Rister, op. cit., p. 528.