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Vocabulary
The Long Drive
Ranching and Cattle Drives
100
What enabled hundreds of square miles to be fenced off cheaply and easily?
What is a barbed wire
100
Stray calves with no identifying symbols were called what?
What is mavericks
100
The Texas longhorn was a breed decended from Spanish cattle that had been brought to from where?
What is Mexico
200
After these surface deposits dwindled, corporations would move in to begin... What?
What is quartz mining
200
Most of the cowboys in the early years of the cattle drivers were former Confederate army escaping the harsh life in the South during... What time?
What is Reconstruction
200
Before the Civil War, ranchers had little incentive to round up the longhorns. Beef prices were low, and moving the cattle to the eastern markets was not partical.Two developments changed this situation.. What were the two they?
What is The Civil War and the Construction of the railroads
300
Cowboys drove nearly 1.5 million head of cattle up the... What was the name of this trail?
What is Chisholm Trail
300
Other cowboys on the trails demanded discipline, endurance, and... What? Hint: Its another word for bravery
What is courage
300
By the 1860s, railroads had reached the?
What is the Great Plains
400
Law enforcer were scarce, and self-appointed volunteers sometimes formed what kind of committee to track down and punish wrongdoers?
What is vigilance committee
400
Mexican cowhands developed the tools and techniques for rounding up and driving cattle. These Hispanic herders taught American cowhands their trade and enriched the English vocabulary with words of Spanish orgin, including "lariat," "lasso," and?
What is stampede.
500
Early prospectors would extract the shallow deposits of ore largely by hand in a process called?
What is placer mining
500
A vast area of of grassland owned by the government was called what?
What is open range