To answer Kevin's question -- Donna recounts her discovery in the
documentary and in the Intro to the book, "Photographing Montana 1894-1928:
The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron," which is available on Amazon, and
elsewhere of course, in hardback and PB.  The documentary is being shown in
many parts of the country, though not at the same time.  The Richmond
station showed it last week, I think; and it may surface in VA again.
Evelyn lived a truly extraordinary life--English aristocrat finds herself
more or less stranded on a remote Montana ranch in the 1890s, flat broke,
useless husband (whom she loves anyway), and instead of yielding to despair
she totally remakes her life, embracing the harshness, the cruelty, and the
vitality of the frontier.  After years of "tea time!" in England she never
wanted to go back there -- she loved the West, which she thought was the
only place a woman could be free.  Farm/horse/ranch people will be
particularly fascinated by the story.  For years film producers tried to get
a feature made out in Hollywood but it never came together; maybe now it will.

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