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The Western Frontier

The Western Frontier. Vocabulary. Lode. A streak or abundance of minerals found underground sandwiched between two rocks . Ore. Rocks or minerals found underground that are worth money. Vigilantes.

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The Western Frontier

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  1. The Western Frontier Vocabulary

  2. Lode • A streak or abundance of minerals found underground sandwiched between two rocks

  3. Ore • Rocks or minerals found underground that are worth money

  4. Vigilantes • Someone who takes the law into their own hands and decides a person’s guilt or innocence without a trial.

  5. Ghost Towns • What a boomtown becomes when the gold runs out and all the people leave the town deserted.

  6. Subsidy • Money and/or land given to railroad companies by the government so that railroad construction would continue in the west.

  7. Transcontinental • Stretches across the continent from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.

  8. Open Range • Land not fenced or divided into lots

  9. Brand • A symbol

  10. Vaquero • A Hispanic ranch hand

  11. Chaps and Lariat • Chaps – leather leggings to shield the cowboy’s legs • Lariats – ropes used to lasso cattle

  12. Long Drive • The herding of cattle 1,000 miles or more to meet the railroads.

  13. Stampede • When thousands of cattle run in panic

  14. Homestead • To earn ownership of land by settling on it

  15. Sodbuster • A farmer in the Plains where there is little rain

  16. Dry Farming • To plant seeds deep in the ground where there was moisture

  17. Nomadic • Moving from place to place with no permanent home

  18. Reservations • Tracts of land set aside for Native Americans

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