American West

3. A historical event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened for homesteading on a first-come-first-served basis.
5. Members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army
6. An area of land designated for Indian tribes.
8. the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values.
12. An applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain
13. A convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons

1. A private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States.
2. An American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders
4. An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations
5. A burial-ground especially for men killed in gunfights
7. An animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America
9. a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads.
10. an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people.
11. The process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another
14. A ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems.