At first, ranchers saw barbed wire as a threat because:
a.harmed their cattle
b.kept their hers from roaming freely
c.required much effort to maintain
d.kept their herds away from food

The Dawes Act attempted to help Native American by:
a.selling land and building a trust of money for them
b.returning them to their native lands
c.reintroducing the buffalo to reservation land
d. training them to become farmers

The people who used the phrase "Pikes Peak or Bust" were
a. mountain climbers in Colorado
b. silver miners near Pikes Peak
c. gold miners near Pikes
d. settlers heading to Colorado

The legendary boomtown of Leadville got its name from:
a. rich deposits of lead
b. lead drposits that contrained large amounts of silver
c. lead deposits that contained large amounts of gold
d. the town's main industry, which made lead from its rich copper deposit