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摘要

How do you get a $60 million spread in Montana fly-fishing country for $3 million? Share it with herds of other families and elk When he was a kid in Connecticut, David Pepe's fan-tasy was to have a fishing cabin with a trout stream out back. Now, at 43, he and his wife, Julie, have bought two ranches in southwest Montana-the 1,800-acre Beaverhead Ranch, with 5 miles of the Beaverhead River running through it, and the 2,000-acre Big Hole Ranch, which rises 1,500 feet from the Big Hole River up to grazing land for a herd of 400 elk that borders a national forest. Both rivers teem with trout.