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Article: BIGHORN DRAINAGE DESPERATE FOR SNOW.(Sports)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- December 20, 2002
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Byline: Ed Dentry
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
FORT SMITH, Mont. -- Unmatched almost anywhere in the West is the swell of delight an angler feels at the first pull of oars after a long absence from the Bighorn River. The spirit soars highest if you've paid in advance with a cruel motor trip across Wyoming's windswept prairie.
It is always good to be in Montana again, where rivers are roads, legally accessible to everyone, and where trout in rivers are wild, never stocked.
Dr. Ed Running, a semi-retired physician who lives in Arvada, felt the Bighorn's tug so strongly that he and a pal bought a house and parked two driftboats in Fort Smith five ...