American Folk Heroes Crossword
Across
- 4. "King of the Wild Frontier", had a popular TV show made about him in the 1950s.
- 8. A locomotive engineer who averted a crash, saving the lives of everyone on his train at the cost of his own life. The Grateful Dead, among other artists, have written songs about him.
- 9. Raced a drilling machine with only his hammer.
Down
- 1. A conservationist who is said to have planted apple trees everywhere he went.
- 2. South Dakota gold-rush town where #5 and Wild Bill Hickok are buried. 20 years ago, a TV show was made about this place.
- 3. Has a knife and a rock star named after him.
- 5. Calamity ____ was a frontierswoman and sharpshooter.
- 6. #3 and #4 both died during a heroic last stand in this famous place.
- 7. Paul Bunyan's big blue ox.