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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (43685)9/1/2008 9:44:16 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224705
 
I put snake handling in the cult category, akin to Jim Jones. No offense to any handlers out there, but it doesn't cut the mustard with me.

Last week I was up in the Bannack Cemetery researching some gravestones. There was a sign warning against rattlers.

en.wikipedia.org

There were some snakes there in the 1860s, but they hanged them high.

I found the gravestone I was looking for. It was for William H. Bell, November 1862, He died of mountain fever, possibly spotted fever, not of hanging, and he was not a snake.