Photo book features homesteads of the Bear Paws

Local photographer and book author Peggy Ray has published her third coffee table book of photography featuring life in the Bear Paw Mountains, this time focusing the many homestead shacks still hidden away on modern day ranches.

"Homesteads of the Bear Paw Mountains" has photos from several homestead shacks in various states of preservation and decay, along with some old family photos of the original homesteaders when they could be provided.

The "Homestead" book came about organically from her second book which had a short section with homestead photos.

"In this second book I did a chapter on...