| A | B |
|---|
| Vigilance Committees | Volunteers who kept the peace |
| Hydraulic Mining | Blasting away the side of mountian using water |
| Open Range | Allowing livestock to graze anywhere on Great Plains |
| Long Drive | Driving cattle from Texas to raillines |
| Hacienda | Hispanic name for large ranch or homestead |
| Comstock Lode | Huge silver discovery when gold was NOT found |
| Boomtown | Thriving mining or ranching town |
| Ghostown | An abandoned town left to rot |
| Homestead Act | $10 filing fee for 160 acres at $1.25each |
| Dry Farming | Drilling seeds deep into the ground |
| Sodbuster | Nickname for early homesteader |
| Sod | Due to lack of timber, houses were built of this |
| Bonanza Farm | Huge wheat farm |
| Barbed Wire | Open Range can to an end with this invention |
| Wheat | Crop that grew best on the plains |
| Placer Mining | Process using simple picks and shovels |
| Federal Government | Owned the vast Great Plains |
| Chisholm Trail | Most famous cattle trial |
| Vaqueros | Taught American cowboys their trade |
| 1890 | Marked the closing of the American Frontier |
| 1849 | Calfornia Gold Rush |
| Morrill Land Grants | Land given to states to est. agricultural collages |
| Longhorn | Preferred cattle for raising on tough prairie grass |
| Abiline, KS | Major railhead at end of cattle trail |
