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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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