The Wretched Newspaper War

Although four other photographers were present after the 1890 tragedy at Wounded Knee, George Trager was the only photographer who captured on film the bloody, grisly scenes. For this most famous photograph of his, he asked the burial party to pose above their partially completed grave. Some held shovels, but others held rifles, and the soldier at far right pointed his rifle at the Lakotas as if they were nothing more than a pile o