Cowboys
This piece of equipment is worn on a cowboy's heels and used to cue a horse.
What are spurs?
Wyatt Earp, the famous lawman was known for his role in this Gunfight.
What is the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
This group of citizens formed to take justice into their own hands when no official law enforcement was present.
What is a vigilance committee (or vigilantes)?
This simple structure was built over a pit in the ground, used as a toilet before the invention or availability of indoor plumbing.
What is an outhouse?
This invention by Samuel Morse revolutionized long-distance communication in the 19th century.
What is the telegraph?
A cowboy's primary tool for herding cattle is this long, braided rope.
What is a lariat/lasso?
This discovery of this precious metal began in 1848 and led to a massive migration to California.
What is the Gold?
These posters, actual legal documents, were often displayed in public, offering a reward for the capture of an outlaw, "dead or alive".
What are wanted posters?
This common parasitic insect was a constant nuisance on the frontier and often spread diseases like Lyme disease.
What are lice?
What device, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, drastically changed personal and business communication?
What is the telephone?
Born William H. Bonney, he was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West.
What was Billy the Kid?
What was the primary mode of long-distance transportation for goods and people across the American West before railroads?
What are stagecoaches or wagons?
The term for a group of armed men formed by a sheriff to pursue and capture outlaws, typically on horseback.
What is a posse?
This old medical practice was where doctors or healers removed blood from a patient’s body, believing it would cure or prevent illness.
What is bloodletting?
The development of this new power source in the late 19th century led to the demise of the candle making industry.
What is electricity?
What is the term for the large, traditional felt or straw hat worn by cowboys?
What is a stetson?
This legendary female sharpshooter was known for her Wild West show performances.
Who is Annie Oakley?
This was the slang term for the prison whose roots are based on the Spanish word juzgar, meaning "to judge."
What is a hoosegow?
These dishonest peddlers, whose name stems from a reptile medicinal oil, sold fake or exaggerated "cure-all" medicines, claiming they could heal anything from headaches to arthritis to baldness.
What are snake-oil salesmen?
This invention by the Wright brothers forever changed transportation and warfare.
What is the airplane?
The high majority of cowboys killed on the trail died of this type of riding accidents, not from gunfights or other violent acts.
What are horse-related accidents?
This was weather event was the most common cause of stampedes on cattle drives.
What was thunder and lightning?
The infamous James-Younger gang, led by these 2 brothers, was known for their daring bank and train robberies across the Midwest
Who were Frank and Jesse James?
This disease, also known as consumption, was a long-term lung disease with no cure at the time.
What is tubercolosis?
The construction of this was one of the most ambitious engineering feats of the 19th century, linking the eastern and western United States with a ribbon of steel.
What is the (transcontinental) railroad?