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  1. cultivate
    adapt something wild to the environment
    In the Eastern parts of the United States the preferred grass for forage was a cultivated plant.
  2. forage
    collect or look around for, as food
    The Western combination of desert, inedible forage, and unmarketable wild animals offered a puzzling, enticing opportunity to men in search of new wealth.
  3. drought
    a shortage of rainfall
    But in the dry grazing lands of the great West, that familiar blue-joint grass was often killed by drought.
  4. entice
    provoke someone to do something through persuasion
    The Western combination of desert, inedible forage, and unmarketable wild animals offered a puzzling, enticing opportunity to men in search of new wealth.
  5. beneficiary
    the recipient of funds or other advantages
    Like the railroad builders. they believed themselves the rightful beneficiaries of the government.
  6. incredulity
    doubt about the truth of something
    We read with incredulity how the buffalo dominated the life of the Plains Indians, yet the Texas Longhorn wielded a similar power over thousands of Western Americans, One consequence was, as ].
  7. thrive
    make steady progress
    Cattle left outdoors to fend for themselves thrived on this God-given hay.
  8. trek
    any long and difficult trip
    Stories told how trusting cowboys were finally rewarded by a remote solitary lake or a hidden stream after a forty mile trek.
  9. surveying
    the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map
    When the knowledgeable Army scientist Major William H Emory was surveying the southern boundary of Texas in 1857 after the Mexican War, he reported that "hunting the wild horses and cattle is the regular business of the inhabitants of Laredo and other towns_ along the Rio Grande."
  10. insolence
    the trait of being rude and impertinent
    Frank Dohie has explained, that "America's Man on Horseback" was "not a helmeted soldier, but a booted cowboy" who had his own kind of pride and insolence and self-confidence.
  11. reluctant
    not eager
    While cattlemen sometimes called that "God's Country" they were reluctant to acknowledge their tenancy.
  12. ingenious
    showing inventiveness and skill
    The Longhorns liked water and were ingenious at finding it.
  13. barren
    completely wanting or lacking
    The answer lay on a resource that unknowing Americans had trampled under-foot in their haste to cross the "Great American Desert" to reach lands that sometimes proved barren.
  14. stem
    cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
    They were not juicy like the cultivated Eastern grasses, but had short, hard stems.
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