Prairie Rattlesnake

Feb 11 1805

Birth of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau

...he delivery and recorded an unusual folk remedy — crushed rattlesnake rattle administered as a labor-inducing agent. "About five Oclock this evening one of the wives of...

May 16 1805

Clark: May 16, 1805

...y recently. Capt. Clark narrowly escaped being bitten by a rattlesnake in the course of his walk, the party killed one this evening at our encampment, which he informed ...

Jun 15 1805

Lewis: June 15, 1805

...n colour. when I awoke from my sleep today I found a large rattlesnake coiled on the leaning trunk of a tree under the shade of which I had been lying at the distance of...

Aug 14 1805

Lewis: August 14, 1805

... labour. they encamped this evening on Lard. side near the rattlesnake clift

Aug 15 1805

Lewis: August 15, 1805

...Lard. Capt Clark was very near being bitten twice today by rattlesnakes, the Indian woman also narrowly escaped. they caught a number of fine trout. Capt. Clark killed a...

Aug 16 1805

Lewis: August 16, 1805

... found the river so difficult that he had halted below the Rattlesnake bluffs. I knew that if these people left me that they would immediately disperse and secrete them...

Mar 11 1806

Lewis: March 11, 1806

...and brought with him. The reptiles of this country are the rattlesnake garter snake and the common brown Lizzard. The season was so far advanced when we arrived on this ...

Apr 25 1806

Lewis: April 25, 1806

...e of the duckandmallard. saw many common lizzards, several rattlesnakes killed by the party, they are the same as those common to the U States. the horned Lizzard is als...

May 16 1806

Lewis: May 16, 1806

...t is 3 feet 11 Inches in length, is much the colour of the rattlesnake common to the middle atlantic states, it has no poisonous teeth. it has 218 scutae on the abdomen ...

May 30 1806

Lewis: May 30, 1806

...The reptiles which I have observed in this quarter are the Rattlesnake of the speceis discribed on the Missouri, they are abundant in every part of the country and are t...

Aug 4 1806

Lewis: August 4, 1806

...ble distance North. during our halt we killed a very large rattlesnake of the speceis common to our country. it had 176 scuta on the abdomen and 25 on the tail, it's len...