HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR WEST?
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Counting each question as worth 20 points, you'll really be riding high, wide and handsome if you can get all five and score 100. If you rate 80, with four correct answers, you're still a top hand on anyone's ranch. Three, or 60, entities you to a place at the grub pile, but less than that, you're a tenderfoot. Let's go!
1. What is the meaning in English of the Spanish-named Arizona towns of Nogales and Ajo?
2. Name the famous Texas Ranger who later in life founded Oakland, California.
3. How did the famous "Bet-a-million" Gates make his first big fortune?
4. Who is known for the line, "Westward the course of empire takes its way?"
5. What kind of animal is a cattalo?
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Answers to How Well Do You Know-Your West Quiz?
1. Nogales means walnuts. Ajo--garlic.
2. Captain (later Colonel) Jack Hays.
S. By convincing the big cattle ranchers of Texas that barbed wire was the
thing, and selling it to them by the carload.
4. An Englishman named Bishop Berkeley, from one of his poems.
5. A hybrid offspring of buffalo and cattle.