Clayton Peak and Sawtooth Mountain in the East Fork of Blue Creek as seen from Heron, Montana; home of Blue Creek Press

Blue Creek Press has been in business in one form or another since 1990, when it was born as Cabinet Crest Companies. Since then, the company has published four proprietary books, six subsidy titles and dozens of brochures, maps, booklets, magazines and tabloids for businesses, individuals and non-profits.

From just outside our palatial offices (just kidding) in beautiful, downtown Heron, Montana, the Blue Creek drainage, for which the company is named, can be seen; a stream that rises in the proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana and formed the valley in which the publisher grew up.

Blue Creek Press is owned and operated by Mitchell “Sandy” Compton, and those “palatial” offices are actually in the room in which he learned to read under the watchful eye of his first grade teacher, Mrs. Tillapaugh.

Sandy is also the principal writer and storyteller of The StoryTelling Company, which has been producing live shows in nearby Sandpoint, Idaho, (Sandy’s other hometown) since year 2000.