Fate hitched Edward S. Curtis to George Bird Grinnell at one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, Mount Rainier. The photographer met the American Indian anthropologist in 1898, the same year Curtis had received a gold medal in photography.
An impressed Grinnell lassoed Curtis as the photographer for a 1900 expedition to document Montana’s Blackfoot Indians. Afterwards, Curtis’s Blackfoot photos attracted the attention of financier J.P. Morgan, who, in 1906, gave Curtis $75,000 t
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