Loving and his partner Charles Goodnight proposed to drive a herd of cattle directly to the growing population centers in New Mexico and Colorado where they could avoid middlemen and earn higher prices per head. The result was the Goodnight-Loving Trail, a 700-mile route through west Texas and New Mexico that eventually brought the cattle right into the booming mining regions of Colorado.
Okay, tenderfoot… head ‘em up and move ‘em out. Let’s see how you round up today’s word herd and how you rate in the table below the quiz.
How did you score?
# Correct | Your Rating |
0 to 1 | cow pie |
2 | cowlick |
3 to 5 | cowbell |
6 to 8 | cowherd |
9 | cowpoke |
10 | cowboy/cowgirl (all-around) |
Text source: history.com; definition source: Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary