Walter Vail
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Walter Lennox Vail was an American businessman, cattle dealer, and politician. He is known for his Empire Land & Cattle Company, which spanned over one million acres throughout five states. Vail has b
Vail in 1882
The headquarters of the Empire Ranch in the modern day
Gila monster
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The Gila monster is a species of venomous lizard native to the Southwestern United States and the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is a heavy, slow-moving reptile, up to 22 in long, and it is
Walter Vail
…with them having five children: Nathan Russel, Mahlon, Mary, Walter Lennox Jr., and William Banning (who used his middle name) together. In 1890, a Gila monster bit Vail on his middle finger, and for years thereafter he experienced bleeding and swelling in his throat, which was thought to be caused by the venom…
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Evolutionary splitting of the genus Heloderma into species (Reiserer et al) Explanation of the numbers 1 Late Eocene (about 35 million years) 2 Late Miocene (about 10 million years) 3 Pliocene (about 4.4 million years) 4 Pliocene (about 3.0 million years)
The first drawing of a Gila monster by Baird, S. F. (1857)
A plate from the Century Cyclopedia that depicts the Gila monster