vocabulary
By:Imelda Rivera
Placer Mining
Placer mining is the mining of alluvial deposits for minerals.
Quartz Mining
Mining of gold on veins or ore bodies in place as distinguished from surface digging or washing
Vigilance committee
group formed of private citizens to administer law and order where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate.
Open range
A large area of grazing land without Frances or gates
Long drive
The hearing of cattle to railway centers
Barbed wire
a wire or strand of wires having small pieces of sharply pointed wire twisted around it at short intervals, used chiefly for fencing in livestock, keeping out trespassers