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- 4. Leather pant coverings to protect clothing and bodies from thorny bushes and long hours in the saddle
- 5. An individual prospector who drills exploratory wells to try to find oil in new locations
- 7. Cattle drives from Kerrville, Texas, past Fort Griffin to Dodge City, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, and Wyoming territories from 1874 to late 1880s
- 11. Raised large herds of cattle or sheep on large tracks of land
- 13. Used to power locomotives, eventually replacing coal power.
- 16. Site of the first major oil deposit desovery in Texas
- 18. A town having rapid population and economic growth, usually connected to the appearance and/or growth of a specific industry
- 20. A factory in which oil is purified and turned into fuel and other products, including oil lubricants, gasoline, and kerosene
- 22. Stretches of public land from the Texas Panhandle to Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotahs & Wyoming territories
- 25. When plants and grass are exposed to intensive grazing leaving plants without sufficient time to recover and regrow
- 26. Cattle Drives blazed a new trail to the west toward military outposts, mines, and reservations in New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming
- 27. One of the most powerful regulatory agencies in Texas, had authority over rates and operations of all railroads, wharves, terminals and ports in Texas
- 29. Farmers and ranchers fought over whether the region would be open range or fenced-off properties
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- 1. Nicknamed La Patrona, she would become known as the first “cattle queen” of Texas
- 2. Charged with enforcing new laws passed to end the Range Wars
- 3. Professional horse handler, in charge of caring for the crew’s horses
- 6. Used in internal combustion engines, like the ones used in automobiles.
- 8. Cattle drives from Brownsville, Texas to Abilene, Kansas (1867-1884), by 1871 moved over 600,000 head of cattle to Abilene
- 9. A tick-borne disease infecting cattle, it did not usually kill Longhorn but cattle in Missouri were not immune, and many died
- 10. long strands of wire with sharp barbs at close intervals designed to poke cattle to keep them within the fences
- 12. Performed many tasks on ranches like herding the cattle, working cattle drives, repairing fences and equipment
- 14. The earliest cattle drive (1840s-1860s) traveled to railroad depots to the east, connected ranches from Brownsville, Texas with Kansas City, Missouri
- 15. Process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses
- 17. Thieves who stole cattle
- 19. After her husband died she took over running the ranch. By 1925, it spanned more than 1 million acres
- 21. a refined fuel oil made by processing petroleum, used in lamps for homes, commercial buildings, and streetlighting
- 23. Breed of cattle from cross-breeding Spanish and English cattle
- 24. Led cowboys, who worked in teams to care for cattle from multiple ranches
- 28. A support tower built out of wood or steel that supports oil well drilling equipment