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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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