Beauty and the Beast at the “World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup”

Why does a small Texas town insist on hosting a huge annual celebration around the public slaughter, beheading, skinning, and eating of thousands of rattlesnakes? Well, $8.4 million in revenue doesn’t hurt. Oh, and “kids enjoy it.”

Published: Mar 29, 2019
Length: 16 minutes (4,000 words)
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