Railroads
What runs across a continent?
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Old McDonald had a what?
What is farm?
Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk. Silk. What do cows drink?
What is water?
What were long and large herds stretched out moving from one place to another?
What are cattle drives?
Effectively ended the open range.
What is barbwire?
These were meeting places of two or more lines.
What are junctions.
What kind of tractors are green?
What is a John Deere?
Why do cows wear bells?
What is because their horns don't work?
What are identification marks made with hot metal or liquid nitrogen?
What are brands?
What were used to reach huge supplies of water?
The United States of America had more railroads than who during the Civil War?
Who was the Confederate States of America?
Techniques such as terracing to keep moisture in the soil.
What is dry farming?
Cattle of Spanish/English descent. Resistant to Texas Fever.
What are longhorns?
What is the area that cattle was moved across on the trail?
What is the open range?
Largest Ranch in Texas.
What is the King Ranch?
What immigrants worked heavily on the railroad in the late 1800's?
What are Chinese?
Machines that separate grain or seeds from plants - made harvesting crops faster and easier.
What are threshers?
What are rustlers?
The route to Abilene Kansas from Texas.
What is Chisholm Trail?
A professional horse handler.
What is a wrangler?
Large-scale growing of crops to sell for profit.
What is commercial farming?
What is the Spanish word for a cowboy who works cattle?
What is a vaquero?
Route that ended in Dodge City, Kansas.
What is Western Trail?
2 men whose lives were based in the novel and mini series Lonesome Dove.
Who is Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving?