Kansas Magazine, Vol. 6: November, 1911 (Classic Reprint) Hardcover – January 22, 2018

Excerpt from Kansas Magazine, Vol. 6: November, 1911The Gila monster grows to eighteen inches in length, a strange monstrous saurian, about whom are woven strange stories. The old timers say he is pizen. Our chauffeur laughs at the tale and says he is harmless as a puppy dog. Take your choice; for me, after seeing him, I prefer to give him the right of way. The deadly side-winder - blind, timid and deadliest of his kind - lurks somewhere under that desert vegetation. The mottled blue racer, swifter than the fire of a Colt automatic makes his home, here. And yet in all the Valley you cannot hear of anyone that ever died from a snake bite. I think much of it is old tradition, for I was unable to find anyone that ever knew of anyone that had died from a gila monster, side-winder, or any other form of reptile life. All that desert vegetation is different. All that desert life conforming to its environ ment, is strange, uncouth, and in a way monstrous, but I think harmless.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Read more