These Indians all carry canes with a crooked handle, they say to kill rattlesnakes and to pull rabbits from their holes.

Starr had told her that lots of people killed rattlesnakes by shooting their heads off.

On her walks, she killed rattlesnakes and would scare her visitors by pulling out a box of their rattles.

So you killed rattlesnakes.

Just herding horses, and watching out for Indians, and killing rattlesnakes was what any boy in the country would be doing.

Joutel gives a very entertaining account of his killing rattlesnakes, which his dog was wont to find, and of shooting alligators.