Mining and Ranching

2. Punished the _____ or the let guilty go free.
5. Stray calves with no identifying symbols.
7. Digging deep under the surface to extract ore.
8. The _____ of gold near Pikes Peak in 1858 set miners on a frantic rush.
10. Mining spurred the development of _____, the Dakota Territory and Montana.
11. Americans did not think cattle ranches on the Great Plains were _____.
13. In 1866 ranchers _____ up cattle and drive to Sedalia, Missouri.
14. discovered gold in the Black Hills and _____ in Montana.
15. News of mineral strike in the area may start a _____.
17. Ranchers in Mexico and Texas allowed there cattle to run wild, and slowly a new breed had emerged, the _____.
18. A vast area of grassland owned by the government.

1. Mexicans introduced cattle _____ in New Mexico, California, and Texas.
3. During the Civil War, eastern cattle were _____ to feed the armies.
4. The drive to Missouri was a huge success and the cattle were able to be sold for _____ times the price in Texas.
6. _____ showed which rancher owned the cattle.
9. After the war beef prices _____.
10. Cowboys drove nearly 1.5 million head of cattle up the _____ Trail.
11. Extracting the shallow deposits of ore by hand.
12. Colorado yielded more than $1 billion worth of silver and _____.
15. Sticky, blue-grey mud found in Nevada.
16. Billions of gold and silver found in Colorado spurred the building of _____.