A) Local residents fed the wild mustangs.
B) Congress acted to save wild horses.
C) Ranchers captured and tamed wild mustangs.
D) Thousands of mustangs were killed.

A) easygoing
B) humorous
C) determined
D) greedy

A) In government feedlots waiting to be adopted.
B) In pens waiting to be killed for pet food.
C) On the range, starving to death in the cold.
D) On ranches being worked too hard in bad weather.

A) a special place in South Dakota
B) a large national park in Oregon
C) his family's land in Michigan
D) a working ranch near Cheyenne

A) He had always dreamed of wild horses.
B) The government told him to.
C) He thought they looked miserable and hungry.
D) His uncle told him to do it.

A) move the horses to canyons
B) build miles of fences
C) watch them constantly
D) train a lead horse

A) enemies
B) relatives
C) servants
D) owners

A) special
B) in danger
C) cold
D) all alone

A) beautiful
B) easily damaged
C) often visited
D) valuable

A) Before the barbed wire was put up the horses were not wild.
B) Very few horses lived on the rangeland, they were mostly in the East.
C) The wild horses would corral themselves in caves for safety.
D) More than two million wild horses roamed the West.