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10 Cards in this Set
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transcontinental railroad
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a railroad that spanned the continent
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Leland Stanford
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him and his partners won the right to build a line eastward from sacromeneto
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Chinese and Irish Workers
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i couldnt find anything
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Battle of Little Big Horn
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custer and all his men died at the battle of little big horn. but victory of sitting bull and crazy horse was fleeting
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Sodbuster
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the first farmers on the eastern plains staked out sites near water and trees. later arrivles continued on treeless prarie
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Cattle Kingdom
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the region dominated by the cattle industry and its ranches, trails, cowtowns came to be called the cattle kingdom
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Longhorn Steer
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castrated male bovine of the cattle breed Texas Longhorn. They have horns, and hair colouration varies wildly between each animal
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Vaquero
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tended cattle on ranches in mexico, californa, and southwest
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Cattle trails
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long piece of dirt path that is only a foot in width and an infinity in length that cattle have made to follow, leading to and from their source of water and mineral and pasture.
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Homestead Act
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offered a 160 acer plot to anyone who resided there for at least five years
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