Mining
A rich vein of gold and silver
Lode
To combine two companies together.
Consolidation
Areas where businesses offered services to cowhands.
Cow towns
Buying and selling something in large quantities at lower prices.
Wholesale
Tents made out of stretching buffalo skins on tall poles.
Tepees
Self-appointed law enforcers.
Vigilantes
A system of connected lines.
Network
Houses that had roofs held together by grass roots.
Sod houses
When prices rise for goods and services.
Inflation
An enclosure where buffalo were herded into.
Corral
A railroad that stretches from coast to coast.
Transcontinental railroad
Where several railroad companies agree to divide up the business in an area.
Pool
This act offered state a federal land grant to build schools that would teach and promote scientific farming and engineering. The second act extended these services to African Americans.
Morrill Acts
Dried buffalo meat.
Jerky
Financial aid or land grant from the government.
Subsidy
Driving hundreds of animals in a certain direction.
Thing that could cut through the sod to the soil below.
Sodbusters
Discount to customers
Rebates
A sled pulled by a dog or horse.
Travois
Another word for widths that are found in tracks used in different railroad lines.
Gauges
Skilled riders who herded cattle on ranches in Mexico, CA, and the Southwest.
Vaqueros (vah KEHR ohs).
Where a group of farmers pooled their money to buy seeds and tools wholesale.
Cooperative
A limited area set aside for Native Americans.
Reservation