Rattlesnake Buttes. A landmark in Colorado infested with myriad poisonous snakes. “Rattlesnake Buttes!” James Michen- er wrote in Centennial (1974): “A thousand westward travelers would remark about them in their diaries: ‘Yesterday from a grate distance we seen the Rattlesnake Butes they was like eve- rybody said tall like castels in Yurope and you could see them all day and wundered who will be bit by the snakes like them folks from Missuri?’ ” |