About Diane Josephy Peavey

Diane Josephy Peavey moved to Idaho in 1982, married state senator/rancher John Peavey, and joined the family at Flat Top Sheep Co. For eighteen years, she wrote essays of western ranch life that aired weekly on regional public radio and were published in her book Bitterbrush Country. Diane, her husband, and many friends started the Trailing of the Sheep Festival in 1996, which now attracts more than twenty-five-thousand people annually.