8th Grade Language Arts Transitive or Intransitive Verbs

When the day was done, they enjoyed each other's company as they swapped stories.

Then they celebrated by having rodeos, parades, and shooting contests.

Nat Love, one of the famous African American cowboys, wrote about his experiences on the range

All the members of a cattle drive slept on the same hard, sometimes rocky ground.

Thousands of African American cowboys rode the cattle trails north from Texas.

Love recalls many of the times that he and the other cowboys looked out for one another.

After long weeks on the trail, they finally reached their destinations with their herds.

They worked alongside Mexican, American Indian, and European American trail hands.

They ate the same food and did the same hard jobs.

Often they also sang around the campfire.