The following story appeared in Joe Durhams entry in Blue Skies and Prairie and is well worth reading. I have no idea about how true it is but it is rather funny even if it was a potentially deadly situation.

Seems as if Joe and a fellow named L. V. Irwin were given the job of mapping the best areas for their fellow snake hunters to look for rattlers during Okeene’s upcoming Rattlesnake Roundup. Joe had never been snake hunting with Irwin, and Irwin had never been flying with Joe, so they were both going a lot on faith. It being April, the roads were muddy, so Joe and Irwin decided to fly out to Salt Creek Canyon, a spot known for good snake hunting. When they got to the airport, they found only one plane available, an old homebuilt Stewart biplane with a 90-horse Gypsy engine. A slight drawback like that doesn’t discourage avid snake hunters, however, so Joe cranked it up and they took off.

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Neither the original date of this article or the publication it appeared in are known although it obviously came from Associated Press and may have been published in the Kansas City Star. However, you have to wonder about some people and their reasons for buying snakes!

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -
To cook it, to breed it, to make a pet out of it, or to pit it in a fight against another rattlesnake, a chicken or a bear.

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