The Gros Ventres make contact with the German explorer and naturalist, Prince Maximilian, in 1832.
Along with the naturalist painter Karl Bodmer, the Europeans paint portraits and record their meeting with the Gros Ventres, near the Missouri River in Montana.
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Karl Bodmer: Aquatint from the book "Maximilian, Prince of Wied’s Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832–1834" by Prince Maximilian of Wied , Publisher: Ackermann & Co., 1839