Chapter 21 Vocab
Across
- 3. known as the Shawnee Trail
- 4. a type of wire fencing designed with sharp points
- 8. in Palo Duro Canyon
- 13. unfenced lands
- 15. a cattleman
- 16. open range from Texas to Canada
- 17. this is where cowboys herded about 35,000 longhorns
- 18. professional horse handler
- 19. this routeroute ran north from Kerrville to Fort Griffin
- 21. ranchers would snip the barbed-wire fences because to many people were putting up fencing
Down
- 1. this was something that was used to reach a huge supply of water
- 2. in South Texas and was one of the most important cattle operations in the state
- 5. identification marks made with hot metal
- 6. herding groups of cattle south of the Rio Grande to supply beef to Spanish military outposts
- 7. huge holding pens
- 9. a farmer in De Kalb, Illinois
- 10. Spanish word for remount
- 11. established in 1885 when the state gave the land to the Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Company
- 12. breed of cattle developed as Spanish breeds mixed with English cattle brought by U.S. settlers
- 14. cattle thieves
- 20. disease longhorns were resistant by