From Homesteaders to Wolfers

For 50 years, almost nobody remembered Evelyn Cameron or what she'd done in the territorial days of early Montana. Her name wasn’t in history books or halls of fame, and her contribution to Western history was stashed, literally, in the basement of a friend. Then writer Donna M. Lucey came snooping around in 1978, looking for photos to illustrate a book on female pioneers. The curator of the Montana Historical Society in Helena mentioned there was a stash of glass plate negatives, but all e