Cattle Trails Vocabulary

the Spanish word for “rancher”

• Jolly Rancher

• Ranchero

• Ranch Doritos

• King Ranch

What is a 'drover'?

• a person who moves livestock overland to market

• a person who drives their kids to soccer practice

• a person who roams the land

• a person who drives a Range Rover

What does it mean to "drive" cattle?

• to load a bunch of cows into a car and hit the road

• when a cow gets a driver's license

• to ride a cow on the freeway

• to move large herds to a stockyard or the market

A stockyard is....

• a place to buy and sell stocks

• a place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere

• The New York Stock Exchange

What is the open range?

• Not this answer

• public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle

• Not this answer

• Not this one either!

A wrangler is....

• a nice pair of jeans

• a type of Jeep

• a store at the outlet mall

• a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses