Heard Around the West

MONTANA

n overcast day sent Bill Childrey, 75, out early to the Big Hole River near Notch Bottom in Montana to do some dry-fly fishing. The fish were biting, but Childrey’s morning went downhill after a good-sized rattler, “a four-or-five-footer,” bit him on the leg, reports the . Understandably upset, he started limping home, though he only later learned how serious his predicament was: “I probably had three hours to get to the