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Chapter 6: Gold in the Black Hills

Vocabulary:

  1. butchered - slaughtered or dressed animals for market

  2. blizzard - windstorm with intense cold and driving snow

  3. calamity - disaster

  4. haberdasheries - men's clothing stores

  5. immigrants - people who leave a country to settle in another

  6. marshal - a federal police officer

  7. nationalities - belonging to particular nations

  8. nuggets - small lumps

  9. panning - washing in a pan for precious metals

  10. sluice - a long box for separating gold ore

  11. treaty - a formal agreement

  12. veins - lengthy occurrences of ore

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