Gertrude Käsebier

Born Gertrude Stanton in Fort Des Moines, Iowa, in 1852, Käsebier's early life took her from the booming gold rush town of Golden, Colorado, where her father was mayor, to Brooklyn, New York. It was during her four years in Colorado that she developed a lasting interest in and affection for Native Americans, an experience that would later inspire some of her most compelling work. Despite an unhappy marriage, which she candidly expressed through her photograph "Yoked and Muzz…