The Girl in the Middle: Book Discussion and Signing with Martha A. Sandweiss

In searching for the story of the figure at the center of an 1868 photograph, Martha A. Sandweiss traces the lives of the people present at Fort Laramie: the photographer, US generals, the Lakota people, and Sophie Mousseau, whose lives were all entangled in struggles over the future of the American west after the Civil War.

Sandweiss will discuss this turbulent history in conversation with Hannah Abelbeck, NMHM curator of photographs and archival collections.

Located in the John Gaw Meem room with limited seating.

Free admission-bottled water only please.