From the Archives: `Snakes alive`: Annual rattlesnake roundup culls hundreds of rattlers
(LA Times Books)

These three images by staff photographer Bill Varie appeared in the April 15, 1979, Los Angeles Times. 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,...