"One of the many hazards the settlers faced was rattlesnakes. C.C. Zupp who came to Douglas in 1869 to farm the eastern side of Section 3, was binding his grain in the late fall of 1874 when he was bitten twice on his foot by the same snake. Zupp took his knife, cut out a chunk of flesh where each bite was, and bound on a chew of tobacco. He then went to his house, drank a bowl of sweet mik, and put on a bread poultice before going back to work in the field." Ida County Book, 1846 - 1996