What do rattlesnakes, moonshine, and an early Fillmore County settlement have in common?

This week, we’re traveling back to 1856 to the forgotten community of Choice in Preble Township, where one ambitious settler claimed to have discovered the cure for rattlesnake bites. Business boomed—until federal officers arrived to investigate.

What they uncovered sparked one of Fillmore County’s most entertaining frontier tales, complete with a hidden operation, a colorful raid, and an ending that’s almost too good to be true.

Whether this story is fact, folklore, or somewhere in between, it has been preserved in History of Fillmore County (1882) for nearly 150 years—and it’s one you won’t want to miss.