The girl in the middle : a recovered history of the American West
"A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West. In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner travelled to Fort Laramie to document the federal government's treaty negotiations with the Lakota and other tribes of the northern plains. Gardner, known for his iconic portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his visceral pictures of the Confederate dead at Antietam, posed six federal peace commissioners w...
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