Mining and Ranching

2. Cowboys drove nearly 1.5 million head of cattle up the _____ Trail.
7. Extracting the shallow deposits of ore by hand.
9. Americans did not think cattle ranches on the Great Plains were _____.
10. Stray calves with no identifying symbols.
11. Mining spurred the development of _____, the Dakota Territory and Montana.
12. Colorado yielded more than $1 billion worth of silver and _____.
13. The drive to Missouri was a huge success and the cattle were able to be sold for _____ times the price in Texas.
14. The _____ of gold near Pikes Peak in 1858 set miners on a frantic rush.
15. News of mineral strike in the area may start a _____.
18. In 1866 ranchers _____ up cattle and drive to Sedalia, Missouri.
19. Billions of gold and silver found in Colorado spurred the building of _____.
20. A vast area of grassland owned by the government.

1. discovered gold in the Black Hills and _____ in Montana.
3. Mexicans introduced cattle _____ in New Mexico, California, and Texas.
4. Punished the _____ or the let guilty go free.
5. _____ showed which rancher owned the cattle.
6. During the Civil War, eastern cattle were _____ to feed the armies.
8. Sticky, blue-grey mud found in Nevada.
15. After the war beef prices _____.
16. Digging deep under the surface to extract ore.
17. Ranchers in Mexico and Texas allowed there cattle to run wild, and slowly a new breed had emerged, the _____.