Molly Magnell
The Great Cottonmouth-Catching Get-Rich-Quick Scheme of 1956
The Great Cottonmouth-Catching Get-Rich-Quick Scheme of 1956. April 2021. This story follows a teen and his friends' journey as amateur herpetologists in the 50s. From preserving snakes to hitchhiking to the Everglades to collect venom, the author turned his attic into a snake lab to extract venom to sell to get rich quick with scientists offering up to $400 an ounce.