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Baits, Traps and Old West Rats

by | Mar 19, 2011 | Uncategorized

How the realization that rats spread disease led to improved bait methods.
In the Frontier West, and throughout history, rats and men have lived in a delicate, fascinating equilibrium. In the Frontier West, and throughout history, rats and men have lived in a delicate, fascinating equilibrium. Although the rat was universally feared and despised in the Old West, frontier docs did not always recognize the rat as the formidabl


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