SWEETWATER, Texas, March 22 (Reuters) - The Texas town of Sweetwater claims fame as home to the world's largest annual "rattlesnake roundup," where thousands of pounds of slithering venomous ...

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those where snakes are killed only happen in three states: Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama. Sweetwater’s is by far the most famous and is probably the largest, although data is scarce. There is ...

SWEETWATER – Walking up on a hissing diamondback rattlesnake is not an experience most people care to have, but out in West Texas this weekend ... Billed as the largest event of its kind ...

The World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup, now in its 67th year, took place in Sweetwater last weekend. The event began in the 1950s as a way to control the rattlesnake population within the city.

Texas Parks and Wildlife identifies ... the western diamondback tops the list as the largest and most commonly seen rattlesnake in the area. Not as large in size, the timber rattlesnake likes ...

Most common to West Texas, rattlers like to den up in dry ... the organization that hosts the World’s Largest Rattlesnake Round-Up every year. Why wrangle? The catch-and-release method is ...