And in Sweetwater, Texas: cancel the rattlesnake festival? Every March, what's billed as the World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup brings ... it's a big boost. Facing a worsening outbreak ...

The extended caption reported: Jaycees in Big Spring, Texas, paid citizens $2.75 a pound for rattlesnakes during the annual March roundup to rid the area of snakes. Just coming out of hibernation ...

Just a fraction of the nearly 25,000 pounds of diamondback rattlesnakes displayed at the 2016 Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas ... to Sweetwater each spring. Over the course of four ...

Rattlesnakes, music, and tons of food are taking over Freer this weekend as the small South Texas town hosts its 60th Annual Rattlesnake Roundup ... Ahead of the big weekend, Freer Mayor Martin ...

AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Some rattlesnakes have slithered through parts of the Texas Capitol to help ... what's billed as the World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup. This year's event includes ...

In Sweetwater, Texas, approximately 181 miles west of Dallas, visitors can enter a coliseum to hear the distinctive sound of hundreds of rattlesnakes, as the largest rattlesnake roundup is hosted.

SWEETWATER, Texas (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 snakes are ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — After being scaled back the past few years, the Freer Rattlesnake Roundup was back in full ... is featured and one of this year's big contributors is a group called ...

And in Sweetwater, Texas ... Rattlesnake Roundup teams. Right: Taxidermied rattlesnakes for sale at a vendor's booth. McCann says the festival is about much more than simply drawing big crowds ...