Visual Vocabulary
Blair Kingsley
Placer Mining...
...is the mining of valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging the mineral deposit.
Quartz Mining...
...is the extraction of gold ore from quart reef veins.
The Vigilance Committee...
...was an unauthorized committee made up of Southern citizens, who used unlawful means to control blacks and abolitionists during the Civil War.
The Open Range...
...is a large, open area without fences or other barriers.
A Long Drive...
...is a long track, where cowboys herded cattle from their ranches, to rail lines to sell.
Barbed Wire...
...is a type of wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes, that's used for fencing or as an obstruction of sorts.