Mining and Ranching

1. Stray calves with no identifying symbols.
5. In 1866 ranchers _____ up cattle and drive to Sedalia, Missouri.
7. After the war beef prices _____.
8. Extracting the shallow deposits of ore by hand.
12. Ranchers in Mexico and Texas allowed there cattle to run wild, and slowly a new breed had emerged, the _____.
14. News of mineral strike in the area may start a _____.
15. Cowboys drove nearly 1.5 million head of cattle up the _____ Trail.
16. Digging deep under the surface to extract ore.
18. The _____ of gold near Pikes Peak in 1858 set miners on a frantic rush.

2. Punished the _____ or the let guilty go free.
3. The drive to Missouri was a huge success and the cattle were able to be sold for _____ times the price in Texas.
4. Mexicans introduced cattle _____ in New Mexico, California, and Texas.
6. Billions of gold and silver found in Colorado spurred the building of _____.
7. Sticky, blue-grey mud found in Nevada.
9. Colorado yielded more than $1 billion worth of silver and _____.
10. Mining spurred the development of _____, the Dakota Territory and Montana.
11. Americans did not think cattle ranches on the Great Plains were _____.
13. A vast area of grassland owned by the government.
17. discovered gold in the Black Hills and _____ in Montana.
19. During the Civil War, eastern cattle were _____ to feed the armies.