Johanna Wickman

Johanna Wickman lives in Casper, Wyo., where she is president of Wickman Historical Consultants, providing historical research and exhibit design services to museums and historians. She published her master's thesis in 2016 as Lost Forts of Casper.

In 1913, department-store tycoon Rodman Wanamaker and photographer Joseph Dixon hatched the idea of a statue of an American Indian in New York harbor higher than the Statue of Liberty—as a memorial to what they saw as a “vanishing race.” Dixon subsequently toured and photographed 89 Indian reservations—including Wyoming’s Shoshone Reservation—leaving a valuable record.