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