In late 1846, Rudolph Friederich Kurz, a young and idealistic
Swiss artist, came to the United States to study and paint American
Indians. Because he also had to earn a living, he signed on with
the Pierre Chouteau Jr. Company (commonly known as the American Fur
Company) and traveled northward on the Missouri River to work as a
clerk at Fort Berthold and Fort Union in present-day North Dakota.
While living among fur traders and Indians of numerous tribes, Kurz
filled a sketchbook and kept a detailed journal.
"On the Upper Missouri," an abridged and annotated version of
his journal, is an invaluable source for information about Fort
Union, the fur trade industry, and Indians of the northern plains.
For this edition, editor Carla Kelly has preserved Kurz's style but
included only those portions of greatest interest to readers today:
his lively and detailed observations of people and activities at
the fort. The volume also features 97 black-and-white drawings from
Kurz's sketchbook.
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