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4 unusual facts about Big Hole River


Big Hole River

The river is a Class I water from the Fishtrap fishing access site downstream from Wisdom to its confluence with the Jefferson River.

Conservationist George F. Grant, Trout Unlimited and local ranchers combined forces to oppose the dam, successfully defeating the proposal in 1967.

In the early 1960s, the US Bureau of Reclamation proposed building the Reichle Dam near the town of Glen along the Big Hole River.

Montana Southern Railway

Completed on November 1, 1919, the railroad ran westward from a connection with the Oregon Short Line Railroad at Divide, following the Big Hole River upstream to the town of Wise River, Montana, also known as Allentown.



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Raymond Strother

The Strothers now reside in Bozeman, Montana, and have a home on the Big Hole River near the unincorporated community of Wise River in Beaverhead County near Dillon, Montana.