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The Forgotten Photographer of America’s Great Plains

How a failed homesteader who died a ruined man finally found fame as the singular documentarian of America’s pioneer period.

Shannon Geis
Oct 20, 2014
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Photos courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society

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