Vocabulary

2. a rich vein of gold, silver, or other valuable ore
5. a group of people who pool their money to buy or sell goods wholesale
6. a discount
8. town a settlement that grew up at the end of a cattle trail
9. a system of connected railroad lines
11. an enclosure for animals
12. a land grant or other financial help from the government
13. a type of dried meat
15. a self-appointed enforcer of the law
18. an amount of something, such as land, distributed to a person
19. a farmer on the Great Plains in the late 1800s
20. a system in which several railroad companies agreed to divide up the business in an area and set prices
21. a railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast

1. the buying or selling of something in large quantities at lower prices
3. a sled pulled by a dog or horse
4. a Spanish or Mexican cowhand
5. to combine
7. a tent made by stretching buffalo skins on tall poles
8. the herding and moving of cattle, usually to railroad lines
10. a limited area of land set aside for Native Americans
14. a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
16. the width of a train track
17. the acts passed in 1862 and 1890 that provided public land for agricultural colleges