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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A) More than two million wild horses roamed the West.
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) Before the barbed wire was put up the horses were not wild.