Martha A. Sandweiss - The Girl in the Middle: A recovered history of the American West

In 1868 the pioneer American photographer Alexander Gardner joined a delegation from the US government that was negotiating with the Lakota and other Native American tribes. They met at Fort Laramie in Wyoming Territory, and Gardner made a number of images of the negotiators, the Native Americans and the landscape. One of these is a striking picture showing six men, some in military uniform,