Vigilante
Self appointed law
Subsidies
Grants of land or money
Transcontinental railroad
A railroad line that spanned the continent
Travois
Small sleds
Teepee
Cone-shaped tents made from Buffalo skin
Reservation
Land set aside for the native American Indians
Sitting Bull
Famous Indian chief
Open range
Unfenced land
Cattle drive
The hearing and moving of cattle over long distances
Vaquero
Is the Spanish word for cowhand or cowboy
Cow town
Settlement at the end of a cattle trail
Cattle kingdom
Region dominated by the cattle industry and it ranches trails and cow towns came to be the cattle kingdom
Homesteaders
Settlers who acquired free land from the government
Sod
Surface of the earth layer of the earth in which the root of the grasses tangle with soil
Sodbusters
Plain farmers
Sooners
Had already sneaked onto land
Granges
Groups of farmers who met for lectures and sewing bees and other events
Farm cooperatives
Groups of farmers who pool money their money to make large purchases of tools seeds and other discounted supplies
Inflation
General price rises