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Follow a brave drover as he moves livestock, encounters wild mustangs, and faces desperadoes in a tale of quarantines, dragoons, and guerrilla fighters during the Wild West era. Travel through treaty negotiations, encounters with vaqueros, and the threat of extinction as the frontier expands. Immerse yourself in the life of a sharecropper, experience both commercial and subsistence agriculture, and witness the challenges of immigrants adapting to life in a new land. Discover the struggles and triumphs of those living on the edge of the law in a land of lariats and felony crimes.
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vocabulary • Drover- Someone who moves livestock to stores • Mustang- A wild horse • Quarantine- To cut off an are to prevent the spread of a disease • Dragoons- Calvary • Guerrilla- fighters especially untrained who use primitive tactics to combat other forces. • Remuda- extra horses • Treaty- an agreement between two parties • Lariats- a lasso • Extinction- the complete obliteration of a race • Desperadoes- Brave often desperate criminals • Felony- A crime that leads to time in prison. • Vaqueros- cowboy in spanish • Enclosure- A fenced in area for livestock.
Vocabulary • Sharecropper- someone who tends another's land in return for a share of the crop. • Commercial Agriculture- harvesting crops to sell in markets • Subsistence Agriculture- producing only enough crop to meet basic needs. • Immigrant- settlers from another nation • Expansion- the act of expanding
