Amazon.com description: Product Description: Scientific facts concerning rattlesnakes can be found in many places from encyclopedias to the works of herpetologists. Dobie includes not just facts but yarns and gossip about rattlesnakes heard from people who never once looked inside a scientific book. This snake in one form or another is common throughout the United States. They grow larger, however in the West and Southwest, and talk about them in those regions seems bigger then elsewhere. Dobie passes along to the reader the best of what he has heard concerning these snakes and the many legends they have spawned. This is Americana at it best.