Ch 17: THE WEST

Farmers who used very little water, dry farming

• sodbusters

• cowboys

• vaqueros

• ranchers

Hired hands of the west, used to handle livestock

• sodbusters

• cowboys

• vaqueros

• ranchers

Mexican ranch hands, moving cattle for over 300 years.

• sodbusters

• cowboys

• vaqueros

• ranchers

Owners of large landholdings, mainly used to raise cattle

• sodbusters

• cowboys

• vaqueros

• ranchers

This helped lead to the demise of the Cattle Kingdoms

• barbed wire

• lawmen

• railroads

• sodbusting

The main job of the cowboys and vaqueros, moving cattle North from Texas

• long drive

• railroad

• transcontinental

• Cattle Kingdom

When the cow, and the cowboy ruled the landscape. Gone by 1888.

• long drive

• railroad

• transcontinental

• Cattle Kingdom

Finished in Utah in 1869, connecting East to West

• long drive

• railroad

• transcontinental

• Cattle Kingdom

Nomadic Indians who ruled the Great plains. "Sunkmanitu Tanka Ob Waci!!"

• homestead

• reservations

• Lakota

• ranchos

Small sections of country, wherein the Natives were forced to live

• homestead

• reservations

• Lakota

• ranchos