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| Comstock Lode | this was one of the biggest strikes ever...in Nevada over 30 years it yielded $400 million in gold and silver |
| Homestake | this mine in the Black Hills of Dakota opened in 1877 was possibly the richest single mine ever uncovered...it produced a billion dollars' worth of ore |
| placer mining | this Spanish technique for panning gold involved running water over dirt in boxes to separate it from the gold or silver particles |
| Pike's Peak | in 1859 rumours of gold brought many miners to this place in Colorado...most of the rumours turned out to be exaggerated |
| pork | prior to the Civil War this type of meat was Americans' meat of choice |
| longhorn | this Texas cattle was known as "the butcher's nightmare" because of its tough meat |
| buffalo | the US government sought to wipe out this animal to force Indians to grow their own food and to make room for settlers |
| J G McCoy | he established the town of Abilene which was the first town built specifically for receiving cattle |
| cowtowns | included Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Dodge City, Witchita, and Ellsworth in Kansas |
| refrigerated | development of ___ railcars cut transportation costs in half when shipping slaughtered animals |
| Chisholm | this trail was one of several trails that linked the good grazing lands of Texas' San Antonio region with cow towns to the north |
| Red River | this marked the border between Texas and Indian Territory and had to be crossed to reach Kansas |
| stampede | a cowboy's greatest nightmare |
| homesteaders | those folks who farmed claims under the Homestead Act |
| soddie | a sod home with walls and roof made from blocks of sod that cost less than $10 to build |
| Wyoming | the first state to give women the right to vote |
| dry farming | water conservation techniques practiced by farmers that included planting crops that don't require a great deal of water |
| USDA (US Dept of Agriculture) | this was created under the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act and collected statistics on markets, crops, and plant diseases as well as providing information on crop rotation, hybridization and soil & water conservation |
| bonanza | large farms that were controlled by large businesses, managed by professionals, and raised massive quantities of single crops |
| fell | when the supply of a crop rose faster than the demand, prices ____ |
| frontier | in 1890 the head of the Census Bureau announced the official end of the ____ |
| Turner Thesis | this theory of frontier life by Frederick Jackson turner claimed hat the frontier had played a key role in forming the American character |
| stereotypes | exaggerated or oversimplified descriptions of reality |
| Nat Love | he was the real person that Deadwood Dick was modeled after |
| Buffalo Bill | was famous for his Wild West shows that contributed further to frontier myths |
