Life On The Ranch
Where ranchers could drive their herd; owned by government
What is an open range?
Plains Indians depended on this animal which was a necessity for food, clothing, and shelter.
What are buffalo?
A place where western folks gather together where they sing, drink, watch can can dancers, and play card games.
What is a Saloon?
The simple hand in process was used to look/search for “treasure” by using equipment like picks, shovels and pans.
What is placer mining?
A new breed of an animal which descended from Spain and Texas
What is a Texas Longhorn?
A dance created by Native Americans which represented the hope that buffalo would return and the white man would leave.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Also called dance hall girls, would do a special dance, sing, and serve drinks to men in the saloon.
What are Can Can girls?
A claim staked in the Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada stated that one very important man discovered that the very sticky, blue-gray mud found there was pure silver ore.
Who is Henry Comstock?
Farmers put this up and resulted in “range wars”. Kept other cattle from grazing on property.
What are barbed wire fences?
The action of breaking up reservations so families could become more independent and self-supporting.
What is allotment?
A woman who owned property and in charge of prostitutes.
What is a madam?
In some cases the self-appointed volunteers would punish the innocent or let the guilty go free for unknown reasons, but most people in these communities respect the law and tried to deal with it sternly but fairly.
What are Vigilance Committees?
Stray calves with no identifying symbols.
What is a maverick?
This battle demonstrated the growing hostilities between settlers and Native Americans, also known as Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands
What is Fetterman's Massacre?
Could do incredible tricks with a gun and made a career at the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
Who is Annie Oakley?
This town was famous in the 1870s for gaining 1000 newcomers per week creating one of the most legendary boomtowns dotting the mining frontier.
What is Leadville?
The major route 1.5 million cattle were driven up from 1867 to 1871 to Abilene, Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
The originator of the saying, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”
Who is General Philip Sheridan?
A woman of the Wild West renowned for her sharp-shooting, whiskey swilling, and cross-dressing ways.
Who is Calamity Jane?
This city was the second largest in the West because of mining.
What is Denver?