Mining and Ranching

5. After the war beef prices _____.
7. During the Civil War, eastern cattle were _____ to feed the armies.
8. discovered gold in the Black Hills and _____ in Montana.
9. _____ showed which rancher owned the cattle.
11. Ranchers in Mexico and Texas allowed there cattle to run wild, and slowly a new breed had emerged, the _____.
13. Stray calves with no identifying symbols.
15. Extracting the shallow deposits of ore by hand.
17. News of mineral strike in the area may start a _____.
19. A vast area of grassland owned by the government.
20. In 1866 ranchers _____ up cattle and drive to Sedalia, Missouri.

1. The _____ of gold near Pikes Peak in 1858 set miners on a frantic rush.
2. Digging deep under the surface to extract ore.
3. The drive to Missouri was a huge success and the cattle were able to be sold for _____ times the price in Texas.
4. Americans did not think cattle ranches on the Great Plains were _____.
6. Mining spurred the development of _____, the Dakota Territory and Montana.
8. Cowboys drove nearly 1.5 million head of cattle up the _____ Trail.
10. Mexicans introduced cattle _____ in New Mexico, California, and Texas.
12. Billions of gold and silver found in Colorado spurred the building of _____.
14. Sticky, blue-grey mud found in Nevada.
16. Colorado yielded more than $1 billion worth of silver and _____.
18. Punished the _____ or the let guilty go free.