“Serious Cow People”

Yes, these were the cowgirls who had the gallto turn down President Teddy Roosevelt. Their faces gleam on pictorial portraits captured by an acclaimed photographer of pioneer life on the eastern Montana plains, Evelyn Cameron. Taken between 1894 to 1928, her images, especially of ranch and farm women, are now famous historical treasures and prized collectibles. Tom Roose did not know the identities of these three women roping, riding and branding calves on the open range when he first discove