As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I found this interesting in the British professor, Dr. Townsend, when on American tour, was so impressed with the collection of rattlesnakes of Captain Tom Custer of the 7th Cavalry, that he requested that Tom procure specimens for the London zoo for display.
He accomplished the task and his sister in law, Libby, noted that around the year 1900 AD in the year of our Lord, that these rattlesnakes were still at the London zoo on exhibit.
Tom Custer was twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in combat, so the London zoo had a rather Heroic snake wrangler freely gathering reptiles for their keep.
It amazes me how people leave signatures in this life, long after their 1876 death, in Tom Custer's work was still amazing and educating the English long after he was removed from this world by the cartel.
The Captain had a novel approach to it all, as his orderly would alight from his horse as Tom would and Tom's coat would be produced, as he would pin the snake's head down with his rifle stock. The snake thus retrained would be grasped by his hand, and shoved into the coat sleeve, the one end tied off, and the whole rattling form bundled up behind the saddle.
It seems odd the horse was not amused to the point of running off in fear, but that was how things got wrangled for the London zoo by an American hero.
Interesting legacy, what not eh?
The heads of numerous big game which adorned railway stations in America and other places of note were the work of Tom's taxidermist brother, George, as that was one of his talents.
nuff said
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