Benjamin O'Fallon
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Benjamin O'Fallon was an Indian agent along the upper areas of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. He interacted with Native Americans as a trader and Indian agent. He was against British trappers an
Benjamin O'Fallon, ca. 1833, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Painting of O'Fallon by A.D.M. Cooper
George Catlin, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (Black Hawk), Sauk, 1832. He led the Black Hawk War in 1838.
George Catlin, Interior of a Mandan lodge, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony, 1832 The painting was auctioned by the Field Museum in December 2011, it sold for $1.3 million, a record for a Catlin painting.
Yellowstone expedition
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The Yellowstone expedition was an expedition to the American frontier in 1819 and 1820 authorized by United States Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, with the goal of establishing a military fort or ou
Benjamin O'Fallon
…who released Dickson and had him returned to Canada. In 1819, O'Fallon became an Indian agent, headquartered in Council Bluffs. He was assigned to the Yellowstone expedition, led by General Henry Atkinson and Stephen Harriman Long. O'Fallon and his deputy and interpreter John Doughtery visited tribes prior to the expedition…
Secretary of War John C. Calhoun authorized the Yellowstone Expedition.
Steamboat Western Engineer.
Major Long meets with the Pawnees at Council Bluff, Nebraska, 1819.