Evelyn Cameron was a Terry, Montana

Terry, Montana

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 611 people, 294 households, and 171 families residing in the town. The population density was 866.2 people per square mile . There were 387 housing units at an average density of 548.7 per square mile...

 based photographer. British-born Cameron, and her naturalist husband Ewen, moved to Terry in the 19th century. Evelyn Cameron took startlingly clear pictures of everything: cowboys, sheepherders, weddings, river crossings, freight wagons, people working, badlands, eagles, coyotes and wolves.

Cameron garnered national acclaim for the area through the work of former Time-Life Books editor, Donna Lucey

Donna Lucey

Donna Lucey is the author of the book Photographing Montana 1894-1928: The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron , a biography and collection of photographs from frontier photographer Evelyn Cameron. Lucey has been an editor at Time-Life Books and Look magazine, and has received two grants from the...

. In the late 1970s, Lucey discovered thousands of Cameron's prints and negatives, along with diaries and letters covering thirty-six years of frontier life, stashed away in the basement of Cameron's best friend's home. After intensive study of the photos and documents Lucey wrote a biography, Photographing Montana 1894-1928: The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron, which reproduces more than 170 Cameron images.

The bulk of the photographs are now housed at the Montana Historical Society in Helena. Prints and artifacts are also displayed at the Evelyn Cameron museum in Terry, Montana.

"Lady" Cameron is the subject of the PBS documentary, Evelyn Cameron: Pictures From A Worthy Life.