Chapter 21 Vocab

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

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