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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A) More than two million wild horses roamed the West.
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) Before the barbed wire was put up the horses were not wild.