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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This news article was published on April 24, 1941. The original source unknown but most likely the Okeene record.

Canyons on the Cargill ranch southwest of Okeene had more population last Sunday than ever in the history of this country when several hundred rattlesnake hunters and camera fans attended the annual Rattlesnake Round-up of the Okeene Junior Chamber of Commerce; And when the hunters left, the snake population suffered a loss of over one hundred. There were 105 rattlers caught by actual count and probably many more that were not reported.

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