Day Eight: Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon
So it turned out that the senators couldn’t do much for us despite their willingness to try, but some staff members at the Montana Historical Society (more really nice, helpful people!) were able to locate new information about Henry Larrabee within a few minutes. This left me some time to check out the stuffed buffalo known as Big Medicine (scroll down) and the Montana Museum’s exhibit of Evelyn Cameron photographs before we left Helena. I first learned about Cameron several years ago when I was researching a woman named Emma O’ Connor, who worked as a photographer in Blocksburg in the late 1800s. Cameron was making captivating and sometimes sassy images of life on the Montana frontier around the same time as O’ Connor, and I especially fell in love with her photographs depicting women’s lives out West. After we said goodbye to Joetta and Bob (and Montana), Jim pointed the pickup west and we headed for home.
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