Evelyn Jephson Flower was born in England,1868, and died in Terry, MT in 1928. Evelyn was the daughter of a wealthy East India Company merchant, but she traded aristocracy for the adventure of the wild west when she married a poor Scottish ornithologist and moved to eastern Montana. Together the Camerons enjoyed hunting and researching wildlife and raptors, but it was Evelyn who embraced the homesteading life. She managed their small ranch, branding cattle, raising vegetables in her palatial garden to sell, scrubbing floors, cooking and baking, and she still managed to have enough energy to develop her glass plate photos late into the night. Her photography skills became sought after in the region, and she traveled many hours by horseback with her nine-pound camera and tripod to photograph families, weddings, ranchers, etc. She also captured the beauty of the badlands, the rolling Montana prairies, and day-to-day lives of her pioneer neighbors. Evelyn’s diary entries from every day of her life, starting in 1893 until 1928, provide an incredibly detailed view of a pioneer woman’s life in the West. Source: Montana Historical Society Research Center, mtmemory.org. Photo reference, Montana Historical Society. PAc 90-87.L008