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A vein of metal ore deposited in the earth.
The lode that Henry Comstock found with James Finney in the Virginia Mountains of Western Nevada was the ___________Lode.
The Bland-_________ Act set the price of silver at the ratio of 16.1
A former cattle trail from San Atonio, Texas to Abilene was the __________ Trail.
Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving rounded up 2,000 herds of cattle on the Goodnight-________________trail.
The Trail__________ was in charge of the men, equipment, and animals.
The __________ was usually the youngest of the hands and was paid the least.
Philip _________ was and industrailist who moved to Chicago to start a meat packing industry.
Gustavus _________ made a refrigerated train car for the maet packing industry.
The ______-products left over from killing an animal, like shin and bone.
The __________________ Act opened western lands for free settlement.
Land that is reserved for the Indians only was called the Indian ______________.
People who made their clams illigaly are called _________.
A sod ____________ was made out of strips of sod, white washed in the inside, and a woven stick and clay roof.
Used wind to pump up water.
Joseph_________ made th barbed-wire fence.
__________ free delivery is what Post Offices used to keep costs down so it wouldn't cost more to send a letter to a soddie than it did to send it to New York City.
A social organization for farmers, started by Oliver H. Kelley.
George A. __________ misjudged the strength and determination of a group of Soix warriors.
_________ _________ took up arms against the U.S. Fedral government.
The indian medicine man who inspired the attack against the U.S. Fedrak government was named, Sitting ________.
The chief of the Nez Pierce.
Tracts of land set aside for the Indians.
The leader of the Apaches.
The government put the lndians who had not resisted here __________.
The__________ Act assumed that the way of Indian life no longer worked.
THe worlds single richest gold mine.
Jesse and Frank __________ were robbers after being Confederate raiders.
Billy the ________ started out by fighting in cattle wars, and by the time he was 18 he was charged with 12 murders.
_________ Bart was called the gentleman crook.
Bill __________ was the U.S. marshal for 35 years, and only used guns when he had to.
Harry __________ was an outlaw in the Wild West.
Tom _________ was the sherrif who fought more with his hands than his gun
Wyatt ____________ was the sherriff who ws not well liked, people considered him a murderer.
Bat _______________ was a sherriff, but later became a sportswriter.

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