Big Ranches Bring Big Profits
614,000 acres, and tens of thousands of horses, sheep, and cattle. By 1925, the ranch grew to over 1 million acres and 100,000 head of livestock.
(King Ranch)
Captured mustangs roaming the frontier = ?
Mustangers
Sheep were being raised in _________ Texas and were very profitable.
_South_
known as the inventor of the barbed wire fence.
Glidden
South Texas ranchers = ?
Vaqueros
Women worked inside the home, developed ranches, and maintained food__________
Gardens
1876 = JA Adair and Charles Goodnight created the _______________ in the Palo Duro Canyon.
(JA Ranch)
Famous A.A. mustanger and former slave = ?
Lemmons
Post Civil War = More sheep ranchers for _______ production.
_wool
Barbed Wire cut off open __________ supplies for herds.
water_
Many sheep ranches were owned by ____________.
Hispanics
name two Woman ranchers
Elizabeth Williams, Molly Goodnight, Henrietta King, Margaret Borland.
1878 = H.H. Campbell created the ________ Ranch?
Matador
what was the race of many mustangers ?
Hispanic
Cattle ranchers claimed ________ grazed until the open range grasses
sheep
__________cutting wars ensued between farmers and ranchers.
Fence
Former slave and trail boss and ranch owner = ?
Wallace
Name a female Drover = ?
Amanda Burks, Mary Bunton
Ranch founded by British Investors = ?
(XIT)
hardy wild horses of the western plains
mustangs
George _________ = famous _________ rancher
Kendall sheep
The Texas Legislature made fence cutting a_________
Felony
_____Hooks and Bose _________ = A.A. cowhands.
Ikard Bones
Tejano female rancher who had over 5,000 goats, sheep, and horses
(Cavillo)
wildcard
gain 500 points and switch points with the other team
what significantly reduced the number of mustangs ?
cattle expansion
in the 1870's ranchers _______ and ________ of San Antonio begin to acquire large herds
west north
_________were used to pump water on fenced lands.
Windmills
Name two European countries who owned ranches.
Germans, British, Scottish and Irish)
wildcard
lose 500 points