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somebody should serpwidgits those two.

>>somebody should serpwidgits those two.
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Man, I wish I could find a copy of that book!

I lucked into mine at a second hand bookstore a few years ago. I used to check a copy out from the library all the time but it then vanished probably because of wear lol. Try an Amazon books check they always have used books.

Keith
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Keith, where did you say you're from? how old are you? this is really eerie! you and i must have been alot alike when we were younger! back in the 70's in elementary school, i checked out 'Snake Lover's Diary' so many times i can't remember. i know i must have been a total annoyance to the librarian! one more question...when you got off the school bus in the afternoons, did you ever go straight to the woods to hunt snakes? that was me! you and i could have been best buddies in a former life.

Im 33 and grew up in Detroit,MI and then and now Madison, WI . When I lived in Michigan there was a church with a huge stretch of woods and marsh behind it and we walked by it after school and usually found Garters and a few other small Snakes along with Crayfish and frogs etc... I still get out and hunt here now and then but 2 kids has slowed me down lol.

Keith
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I hunted snakes just about every afternoon around Tulsa, OK, in the early 70s. I also read Barbara Brenner's book so many times I had almost memorized it. I used to go to different branches of the library to check it out so that I wouldn't have it constantly checked out from my local branch, lest they get suspicious!

In the late 80s, I actually found out that the book was still in print so I bought a brand new shiny copy. Still have it, still read it (but now I don't have to take it back when I'm done). It has to be my favorite snake book of my youth (I was in college before I discovered Kauffeld).
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Chris Harrison

aaahhhhh...Kauffeld! now that's one author whose material i've read some of, but i don't own anything by him. i need to get my hands on one of his books again! by the way, what kinds of snakes did you find in Tulsa? i'm determined that before i die, i'm gonna do some travelling and get out to some parts of the country like that.

Our local branch of the Public library had a small stream running behind it, with several acres of fields and woods adjacent. I was back there every day flipping boards and debrise, desperate to find an eastern milk snake like the one pictured in the "Diary". I also drove my local librarian nuts checking out that same book and "The King Snake" over and over. That branch still has the copy 25 years later. I'd swipe the damn thing and pay for "losing it" except that I would feel bad about all of the kids who would suffer from it not being there. Man, I'll bet there was an army of us out there across the contry who did the same thing (LOL)! Good topic.

Will

ive been searching for that book for years

There are currently 13 copies available at abebooks.com. If you're not familiar with it, you are now. I've never been stumped for a book on that site. They've got everything.
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Martin Whalin
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Quotes from guys named Carl:

"Science stops at the frontier of logic. Nature does not, she thrives on ground as yet untrodden by theory."
-Carl Jung

"It is foolish to let singleness of purpose deprive one of the joy and delectation of the many wonderful sights and sounds incidental to the quest."
-Carl Kauffeld

That was my favorite also! I loved the pics of the E King, and then he got the Florida King, which if I remember, looked very beautiful, also. I also loved the story of the E. milk. When I was a kid, everyone else always found the snake, but not me. That book was always my fantasy Summer - collecting different species, learning about them, and then releasing them afterward. I just got a first edition Snakes and Snake Hunting off ebay to go with my worn copy of The Keeper and the Kept. Man, those books are great! It's a shame when you think that most of those places described are probably parking lots now.