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Wild West Keywords
US History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| grasslands | wide open areas used for grazing and crops |
| nomadic | wandering, moving about from place to place |
| reservation | land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans |
| ranching | farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle) |
| meat packing | the business of killing animals for meat and getting the meat ready to be sold |
| branding | a mark that is burned into the skin of an animal (such as a cow) to show who owns the animal |
| industrial | connected with business, trade, or manufactured goods |
| railhead | a town located along a railroad where brokers bought cattle to ship east on railroad cars |
| network | set of routes and the set of places that they connect |
| guage | the distance between the rails of a railroad |
| rural | relating to farm areas and life in the country |
| roundup | the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold |