Vocab

3. farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer's family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade.
4. a community undergoing rapid growth due to sudden economic shock.
5. a large area of grazing land without fences or other barriers
6. a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth is abruptly followed by one of economic decline
8. the making of articles on a large scale using machinery
11. any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting.
12. was the first wire technology capable of restraining cattle. ... When wire fences became widely available in the United States in the late 19th century, it became more affordable to fence much larger areas than before, and intensive animal husbandry was made practical on a much larger scale
14. a town or city in a cattle-raising area of western North America.

1. African American soldiers who mainly served on the Western frontier following the American Civil War.
2. the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness, especially referring to the western US
7. to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops
9. the action of marking with a branding iron.
10. a large yard containing pens and sheds, typically adjacent to a slaughterhouse, in which livestock is kept and sorted.
13. large-scale production of crops for sale