Bodmer Overlook: A higher perspective

A few steps nearer the top of Bodmer Overlook one begins to see the vast expanse of the area surrounding the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers' confluence. That confluence of these major rivers is marked by the distant bluff line. In the 1800s, those bluffs, the Glass Bluffs, were named for the mountain man Hugh Glass, the famed survivor of a brutal grizzle bear attack, who worked at Fort Union as a hunter in the winter of 1832.