Cattle Kingdom

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Across
  1. 3. "early" settlers of the OK land rush of 1889
  2. 5. plain's farmers who used steel plows and drills
  3. 7. Mexican cowboy
  4. 9. a law passed by Congress offering 160-acre plots to people who lived on it and worked the land for 5 years
  5. 10. cattle drives from Texas to railway towns in Kansas
Down
  1. 1. settlers who acquired free land from the government
  2. 2. towns in Kansas where cattle were driven to and loaded onto trains for transport, usually back east
  3. 4. African American settlers (70,000) migrated from the south to the great plains, especially Kansas. many became farmers
  4. 6. the region dominated by the cattle industry and its ranches, trails, and cow towns
  5. 8. untended land where the cattle were left to graze