Frontier Vocab

4. a set of partly unreal ideas associated with a person or object
5. a farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist
9. a farmer who, in exchange for labor, is provided with seed, tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop
10. barbed-wire fencing used in the Texas Panhandle to prevent livestock from drifting off the land and wild cattle from drifting onto it and competing for food
13. a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop
14. the small, hardy horse of the West, descended from horses brought by the Spanish
16. a group of investors who join together to fund a business
18. any person, place, or thing that supplies something that is wanted or needed
19. a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death
20. public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle

1. a place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere
2. the movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market
3. a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses
6. money charged in exchange for a service or permission to take an action
7. a state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests
8. to encourage people to take part in an activity
11. the Spanish word for rancher
12. left unplanted for one or more growing seasons
15. a person who moves livestock overland to market
17. a number of things or events that are arranged or happen one after the other