Chapter 18
VOCABULARY LIST OF TERMS
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Great Plains
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Great American Desert
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Apache
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Comanche
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Pawnee
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Sioux
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Cheyenne
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concentration
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divide and conquer
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Pacific Railway Act
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right of way
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Promontory
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transcontinental railroads
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59ers
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Chivington Massacre
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Washita
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ambush
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Nez Perce
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Wounded Knee
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assayed
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bonanza
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Virginia City
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boom town
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vigilance committee
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vigilantes
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cattle kingdom
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Texan longhorn
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Abilene
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open range
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range rights
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cattle baron
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round up
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brand
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vaqueros
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Dodge City
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boot hills
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droughts
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dry farming
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breadbasket of America
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