English: Title: An expert cowboy snake-handler holds (at a distance) an unhappy, 20-pound specimen at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetwater, Texas

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The Round-Up was started as a way to control the population of snakes in their brushy area of Texas. According to the Jaycees, the large population of rattlesnakes was harming local farmers and ranchers who were losing their livestock to these natural predators. Today, the round-up attracts tens of thousands of visitors, bent on sampling fried rattesnake or beef barbecue, prepared in what the organizers call "the biggest barbecue cook-off ever seen." And buses take interested visitors on tours to let people get the feel of the rattlesnake's habitat.; Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.