Betsy Forster & Laura Gilpin
Gilpin was the daughter of Frank and Emma Gilpin. Her father came from Philadelphia and was involved in cattle ranching. In an interview she said her father was a friend of the great landscape photographer William Henry Jackson, although she does not believe that she actually met him until after she was well along in her own photography career. Her mother grew up in St. Louis and Chicago, and although she moved to Colorado to be with her husband she longed for the more cultured surroundings of big cities. Gilpin's birthplace was in a home in Austin Bluffs, some 65 miles (105 km) from their ranch at Horse Creek. This was the closest place that had a doctor, and since this was her first child Mrs. Gilpin did not want to take any chances.
Laura Gilpin was an American photographer known for her photographs of Native Americans, particularly the Navajo and Pueblo. In 1918 her mother hired a nurse, Elizabeth (Betsy) Forster, to care for her, ill from influenza, and Gilpin and Forster became friends and, later, companions. She frequently photographed Forster during the more than 50 years they were together. They remained together, with occasional separations necessitated by available jobs, until Forster's death in 1972.

Betsy Forster & Laura Gilpin are both buried at the Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Gilpin
Paperback: 760 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1500563323
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
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