| A | B |
| cooperative | organized group who pool their money to purchase equipment at wholesale prices and to warehouse products cheaply in large quantities |
| vacquero | cowhand of Spanish heritage |
| reservation | limited area set aside by the US govevernment for Native Americans |
| transcontinental railroad | railroad that stretches across a continent, coast to coast |
| jerky | dried strips of buffalo meat |
| wholesale | buying and sellig of products in large quantities at lower prices |
| sodbuster | name for a Great Plians farmer who had to cut through sod to the soil below |
| corral | enclosed area used to trap or enclose animals, such as buffalo |