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Chapter 17-3
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Open range | a large area of grazing land without fences or other barriers. |
Cow town | a town or city in a cattle-raising area of western North America. |
Joseph McCoy | Joseph "Cowboy" McCoy was a 19th-century entrepreneur famous for promoting the transport of Longhorn cattle from Texas to the eastern United States. |
Persist | continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure. |
Stampeede | a sudden panicked rush of a number of horses, cattle, or other animals. |
Cattle drive | driving a bovine herd (as cows or bulls or steers) |
Vaquero | ) a cowboy; a cattle driver. |
Myth | a widely held but false belief or idea. |
Cattle kingdom | A cattle kingdom is any area in the US that covers western Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas. During the 1870s and 1880s, |
William buffalo bill Cody | was an American soldier |