-- Clark, 5/17/1805
"I was near treading on a small fierce rattle snake different from any I had ever seen."
One man in the party killed another of the same kind which Lewis examined and carefully described in detail. This was a prairie rattler which was new to science.
--- this was at the same camp as the one where the fire almost burned up their lodge.
"I was near treading on a small fierce rattle snake different from any I had ever seen."
One man in the party killed another of the same kind which Lewis examined and carefully described in detail. This was a prairie rattler which was new to science.
--- this was at the same camp as the one where the fire almost burned up their lodge.