Quanah Parker
Ranches
Oil
Frontier
Vocab
100

Quanah Parker rejected this completely

What is the Medicine Creek Lodge Treaty

100

One of the most important cattle operations that was ran by his wife when the founder died in 1885

What is King Ranch

100

The three oil fields opened in the southest

What are Saratoga, Sour Lake, and Balston?

100

1861

What is the year Texas seceded the Union?

100

A new method of farming to retain water in the soil

What is Dry Farming?

200

Quanah Parker led Comanches and Kiowa to fight buffalo hunters

What is the Red River War?

200

The place where ranching originated in modern day Texas

What is San Antonio/ Rio Grande?

200

The two individuals who first struck oil texas

Who are Pattillo Higgins and Anthony Lucas?

200

Overwhelmed by the loss of their lodges and winter food storage, the natives were forced to sign a treaty

What was (result of) the First battle of the Adobe Wall?

200

Working someone else's farm in return for a share of the crops

What is a sharecropper?

300

Quanah Parkers Tribe

What is the Comanche?

300

The part of texas where Ranching started

What is South Texas?
300

The First Gusher

What is Spindletop Hill 

300

The area beyond the limits of settlement

What is the Frontier?

300

products made from oil and gas

What are petrochemicals?

400

Cynthia Ann

Who is Quanah Parker's mom?

400

The Ranch in charge of building the new Capital Building in Texas

What is the XIT Ranch?

400

Created by the high demand for lumber

What is deforestation?

400

Raiding Frontier Settlements

What is the Natives only Defense?

400

An Individual who looks for oil and/or other minerals

What is a prospector?

500

Made Quanah Parker the most powerful Comanche Chief

What was pushing the frontier boundary?

500

Only woman ever to head up a trail drive

Who is Margaret Borland

500

Created by the oil boom/economic development

What are huge oil companies?
500

Troops moved to the West during the Civil War

Why was the frontier defenseless?

500

A person who moves cattle

Who is a drover?

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