The cemetery and the Green-Wood Historic Fund have erected memorials at the graves of a number of artists in recent years, such as a bronze bear by Dan Ostermiller placed in 21857 at the unmarked burial site of William Holbrook Beard, who's remembered for his anthropomorphized animal paintings, and a statue of Chief Black Moccasin by John Coleman in 21863 at the tomb of George Catlin, famed for his portraits of indigenous tribes in the American West (a tombstone was only added to Catlin's unmarked grave in 21881).
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New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . black moccasin,Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere.
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Western cottonmouth, water moccasin, cottonmouth, (black) moccasin, blunt-tail moccasin, (northern) cottenmouth moccasin, stump-tail (water) moccasin, viper, western cottonmouth moccasin, cotton-mouthed snake, Congo snake, trap-jaw, gapper.
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Common names include variants on cottonmouth, water moccasin, swamp moccasin, black moccasin, and simply viper.Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a Division of Cornell University Press.
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Common names for L. getula include eastern kingsnake, common kingsnake, chain kingsnake, kingsnake, Carolina kingsnake, chain snake, bastard horn snake, black kingsnake, black moccasin, common chain snake, cow sucker, eastern kingsnake, horse racer, master snake, North American kingsnake, oakleaf rattler, pied snake, pine snake, racer, rattlesnake pilot, thunder-and-lightning snake, thunderbolt, thunder snake, wamper, wampum snake.In North Carolina, it is also called the pied piper.
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The piece is currently held in the permanent collection of the Phoenix Art Museum and the Joslyn Art Museum Sculpture Garden. In 2012, Coleman created and donated a new piece named The Greeter, Black Moccasin Meeting Lewis & Clark to be installed at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The eighty-percent life-size statue depicts the Hidatsa chief and is based on a painting by Catlin who was later buried in the Gregory family plot, to which this statue will serve as a marker. Another notable work by Coleman, Visions of Change is a large bronze sculpture depicting a Native American atop a hill overlooking a stampede of bison juxtaposed against an American cowboy standing over a group of Longhorns also streaming down what appears like the other side of the hill.
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After finishing second to the Josh Gifford- trained Tom Troubador at Ascot Racecourse in November he was moved up in class to contest the Bristol Novices' Hurdle over two and a half miles at Cheltenham on 8 December. Ridden by Richard Dunwoody, he started the 3/1 second favourite and recorded his first success, taking the lead at the last and beating the odds-on favourite Regal Ambition by a short head. He finished second to File Concord when 8/11 favourite at Huntingdon on 26 December and then finished runner-up to Black Moccasin at Doncaster Racecourse a month later, conceding eight pounds to the winner. At the same course on 24 February he won the Flamborough Head Novices' Hurdle, beating his stable companion Empire Blue by four lengths.
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