Tue, Apr 15
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Martha A. Sandweiss, 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. Martha Sandweiss will be in conversation with author Hampton Sides.
Date, Time & Location
Apr 15, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Please join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Order The Girl in the Middle ($32, hardcover, publishes April 15) from CWB online here or by calling the store (505) 988-4226.
In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled 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 with a young Native girl wrapped in a blanket. The hand-labeled prints carefully name each of the men, but the girl is never identified. As The Girl in the Middle goes in search of her, it draws readers into the entangled lives of the photographer and his subjects.
Martha A. Sandweiss paints a riveting portrait of the turbulent age of Reconstruction and westward expansion.…