Charles E. Morris: Photographer of the open range

Reporter's note: Charles E. Morris was a photographer in the late 1800's-early 1900's. For a time he had a studio on Indiana Street in Chinook. He was a cowboy turned self-taught photographer who set about to capture life on the open range. He recognized he was seeing the end of an era and photographed much of the range area, and its people, in our part of the country.

One of his granddaughters,Diana Morris Mann, was recently in Chinook and our publishers bought a copy of a book she was selling about the photographs her grandfather took. The book was written by her father, William (Bill) Morri...