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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) More than two million wild horses roamed the West.
D) The wild horses would corral themselves in caves for safety.