Vocab
Vocab 2
People
Potpouri
Events
100
a train station
What is a depot?
100
a train engine
What is a locomotive?
100
blazed part of the trail named after him.
Who is Jesse Chisholm?
100
led an attack on Adobe Walls
Who was Quanah?
100
was put up by west Texas farmers to stop cattle from eating their crops
What is barbed wire?
200
grassy plains where cattle roamed
What is an open range?
200
an event held every spring and fall to look for lost cattle
What is a roundup?
200
brought the words ranch, corral, and lariat to Texas
Who are vaqueros?
200
was a symbol of change
What is locomotive?
200
special trains moving people to Texas
What is homeseekers?
300
twisted wire with very sharp points
What is barbed wire?
300
a place where two or more rail lines meet
What is a junction?
300
cowhand known for his skillful ways of handling cows
Who was Bill Pickett?
300
The US Army sent troop to Texas to build these
What is forts?
300
East Texas companies built railroads through this area that boosted the lumber industries
What is forests?
400
a time of rapid growth
What is a boom?
400
a designed burned into the hide of a cow
What is a brand?
400
invented the first commercially successful barbed wire
Who is Joseph Glidden?
400
the state where they led the Plains Indians where the reservations were
What is Oklahoma?
400
the three main ways of transport before railroads
What is stagecoach, horse, and wagon?
500
African American troops sent to Texas to protect the settlers
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
500
cowboy that rode up and down the borders of the ranch to watch the cattle
What is a line rider?
500
were angry because roaming cattle ate their crops
Who were Texas farmers?
500
trains needed to stop for this every 30 miles
What is water?
500
nickname for the Red River Wars
What is "The Wrinkled Hand Chase"?
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