chapter 6

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Across
  1. 4. a building material settlers used
  2. 5. a chance for cowboys to show their skills
  3. 8. center of gambling in America
  4. 14. people who raced to claim land in Oklahoma on April 22, 1889
  5. 15. food in Texas that was influenced by Mexican cooking and uses hot peppers
  6. 16. the sands are really sands at all, but powders gypsum, a rock
  7. 19. this mission was practically a town
  8. 22. rocks that was formed by the mighty Colorado River cutting into a plateau in Arizona
  9. 23. states that has Las Vegas
  10. 25. on the drives, cowboys took the cattle along trails from Texas up to where
  11. 26. the state that is smaller than the King Ranch
  12. 27. Las Vegas has been nicknamed the city of what
  13. 28. people who had claimed the land illegally and hidden beyond the race's starting line
  14. 29. mixture of beef, spices, and other ingredients like tomatoes and beans
  15. 30. one of the first non-indians to see the canyon
Down
  1. 1. people whose main job was to take care of cows and to get them to market
  2. 2. a river city in Texas
  3. 3. Arizona's most famous ghost town
  4. 6. Indians who live in Arizona and New Mexico
  5. 7. insect which could destroy an entire cornfield in less than a day
  6. 9. a capital of Texas
  7. 10. a town that has unusual festival in Texas
  8. 11. in 1930, Oklahoma and nine other states was turned in...
  9. 12. with so many cattle ranches, which become important ingredient in Texas cooking
  10. 13. resource that are produced about one-fourth of America's oil in Texas
  11. 17. who live in the Grand Canyon
  12. 18. San Antonio's festival held in April
  13. 20. who were the first cowboys
  14. 21. first man who explore the Grand Canyon
  15. 24. a cliff palace dwelling