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Born in 1868 to a wealthy British family, Evelyn Cameron traded privilege for adventure, the lush English countryside for the austere eastern Montana badlands, a lavish estate for a tiny homestead shack. In 1894, at the age of 26, Cameron turned to the burgeoning art of glass-plate photography as a way to support the Camerons' struggling horse ranch, producing some of the most remarkable images of pioneer life ever seen. Often riding twenty to thirty miles roundtrip, carrying her nine-pound camera around her waist and her wooden tripod in a gun scabbard, she spent thirty-four years documenting eastern Montana. She captured western landscapes: the ruggedly beautiful badlands, the vast expanses of unfenced prairie, and the otherwordly sandstone formations. And she photographed Western characters: sodbusters, cowpunchers, sheep shearers, stern-faced ranch families, and hopeful, dreamy-eyed immigrants. She produced some of the first photographs of North American birds.