News & Politics
April 18, 2018
Meanwhile, in Texas
Miss Texas skinned a rattlesnake, and a Texas legislative candidate accepted some very bizarre campaign contributions.
Rattlesnake Roundup
Art
April 1, 1992
The Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup
Photojournalist Jim Cammack was struck by an odd sight at Sweetwater’s annual spring rattlesnake roundup: a man with a tail. No, the man, a Jaycees volunteer, was not participating in a roundup-sanctioned snake-wrestling contest. He was demonstrating one technique for holding the powerful Western diamondback while milking its venom.
Critters
June 30, 1976
Nobody Loves a Rattlesnake
Especially not in Sweetwater: the score at last count was Humans 10,000, Rattlers 0.