Vocabulary
A piece of land set aside for Native Americans to live on.
What is a reservation?
The name given to African American units that were sent to Texas to secure West Texas.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
The well-known ranch that was opened near Palo Duro Canyon.
What is the Goodnight Ranch?
The amount of people living in Texas by 1900.
What is 3 million?
The amount of states in the U.S. that produce more oil than Texas.
What is zero?
Cattle that are mixed breed of English and Spanish cattle.
What are longhorns?
What ranchers or cowboys do to their cattle to show who they belong to.
What is branding?
The ranch in Texas that at one time was larger than the state of Rhode Island.
What is King Ranch?
The two industries that were most important to Texas by the late 1800's.
What are the cattle and cotton industries?
The number one reason why Native Americans left West Texas.
What is bison removal?
When ranchers or cowboys are leading their cattle to sell.
What are cattle drives?
Another name for wild horse.
What are Mustangs?
The event that helped create the cowboy as they led the cattle to sell.
What are cattle drives?
The invention in the 1800's that helped famers take their products to market.
What is the railroad?
The two categories that farmers fell into after the Civil War when they could not pay for their land or equipment.
What are share croppers and tenant farmers?
Small, sharpened pieces of wire twisted into small strands.
What is barbed-wire?
A place where cattle are penned before they are slaughtered or taken somewhere else.
What are stock yards?
The name of the large oil strike that occurred near Beaumont in 1901.
What is Spindletop?
The product that became "king" in Texas in the late 1800's.
What is cotton?
The reason why oil was searched for in Texas.
What is kerosene?
When cattle are living on their own and roaming and eating grass.
What is open-range?
A ranch hand that takes care of horses.
What is a wrangler?
The people that the U.S. government credited for removing Native Americans from West Texas.
Who are the Bison Hunters?
The location in Texas that remains one of the primary sources for oil production in the world.
What is the Permian Basin?
The three things that put an end to cattle drives.
What are: 1. Railroads 2. Quarantine 3. Barbed-Wire?