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Joseph McCoy
Who built stockyards at Abilene and persuaded Texans to drive the herds north to put them on the trail for the Chicago meatpacking plants?
100
Prairie Cattle Company
What is company that owned a 5.5 million acre ranch with 139,000 head of cattle?
100
long drive
What is process by which cattle were driven north from Texas to board trains for the meatpacking plants of Chicago?
200
Spaniards
Who were the first ranchers in the West?
200
roundup
When did cattle get separated into herds on the open range, then driven to railroads?
200
Patio process
What is the process that used mercury to extract silver from ore?
300
Joseph Glidden
Who invented barbed wire?
300
Pikes Peak and Carson River Valley
What were the site of gold discoveries?
300
Californios
Who were the Spanish speaking people of California?
400
J.N. Flint
Who was a silver miner in Virginia City, Nevada, who wrote his memoirs?
400
Comstock Lode
What is a silver strike that yielded over $500 million?
400
Vigilantes
What were committees formed to establish law and order in mining camps?
500
William Seward
Who was the Secretary of State who helped the U.S. to buy Alaska?
500
Klondike district
What is the area of the Yukon, where gold was discovered in 1896, setting off the Alaska gold rush?
500
Hydraulic mining
What is the process that used high pressure water and devastated the environment?
500
Hard rock mining
What is the process that sank deep shafts to obtain ore locked in veins of rock?