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The western diamondback rattlesnake [3] or Texas diamond-back [4] (Crotalus atrox) is a rattlesnake species and member of the viper family, found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. Like all other rattlesnakes and all other vipers, it is venomous .
The largest rattlesnake round-up in the United States is held in Sweetwater, Texas. Held annually in mid-March since 1958, the event currently attracts approximately 30,000 visitors per year and in 2006 each annual round-up was said to result in the capture of 1% of the state's rattlesnake population, [ 5 ] but there are no data or studies to ...
T. proximus—western ribbon snake; T. radix—plains garter snake; T. sirtalis—red-sided and Texas garter snakes; Tropidoclonion lineatum—lined snake; Virginia striatula—rough earth snake; V. valeriae—smooth earth snake; Venomous snakes. Agkistrodon contortrix—copperhead; A. piscivorus—cottonmouth or water moccasin
Rattlesnake (probably western diamondback, but possibly timber) Texas — Shaw was bitten by a rattlesnake he was trying to kill in Bastrop County. [35] January 29, 2011 Wade Westbrook, 26, male: Copperhead: Tennessee — Westbrook was bitten just above the right elbow while handling a copperhead; he had been attempting to determine the snake's ...
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, with more than 28,000 Western and Native American art works and artifacts. The facility also has the world's most extensive collection of American rodeo photographs , barbed wire , saddlery , and early rodeo trophies.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Raegan Beers had 27 points and nine rebounds, and No. 9 Oklahoma set a school scoring record to roll past Western Carolina 122-56 on Wednesday.
In 2017, Kremlin-based sculptor and painter Harold T. Holden became the first Oklahoma artist inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's storied Hall of Great Westerners.
Crotalus viridis (Common names: prairie rattlesnake, [3] [4] Great Plains rattlesnake, [5]) is a venomous pit viper species native to the western United States, southwestern Canada, and northern Mexico.