This portrait of kids and a dog in the apple orchards of the Bitterroot Valley is one of some 22,000 images taken by Bitterroot native and longtime professional photographer Ernst Peterson, whose ...

Through his pictures, Peterson recorded Montana history. Photographers may submit entries to the Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton. "It has to be a Montana image," said museum director, Tamar Stanley.

America’s greatest explorers, Lewis and Clark, were relieved when they reached the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana almost 200 years ago. The Corps of Discovery found the verdant swath of… ...