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Peruvian Anaconda
Wading Creeks
Sighting and Killing the Snake
Pulling the Snake Out
Skinning
Crocodile
Getting the Skin Out
Feared
In Print and a New Home

In Print and a New Home

In 1960 Texaco printed an article about the anaconda in their Spanish language magazine Noticias Texaco which was a monthly journal about employees and activities of the Texas Petroleum Company.  Although I was interviewed and gave the editor some photos of the incident, the Anaconda Story began to take on a new dimension in that publication. 

The tanned snake skin hung on my office wall in Meadville, Pennsylvania, for a number of years.  In 1999 it found a new home.  Larry Woodfork, State Geologist of West Virginia, accepted the skin and many photos for display in the headquarters of the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey at Morgantown.

 

 
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