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Snakes on a Plain

By Sam Eifling
ESPNOutdoors.com Features Editor — March 15, 2007

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Editor's note: This is the first installment of a four-part story about March 9-11 Rattlesnake Round-Up in Sweetwater, Texas. Part II | Part III | Part IV | Photo galleries SWEETWATER, Texas — Terry Armstrong's 75-year-old mother, Joyce, died overnight in this town's single hospital. And yet, on this Wednesday afternoon, the stocky, intense Jaycees president is stamping bootprints in the dirt floor of the Norman County Convention Center, busy, buzzing. "Before she died," Armstrong says, ...

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