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

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

A) On ranches being worked too hard in bad weather.
B) On the range, starving to death in the cold.
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 special place in South Dakota
C) a working ranch near Cheyenne
D) his family's land in Michigan

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

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

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

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

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