Chapter 8 Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. People who helped on the cattle drives
  2. 3. A sudden panicked rush of animals
  3. 4. How many longhorns roamed the grasslands of Texas
  4. 9. A rope used as a lasso
  5. 12. A breed of cattle the ranchers mostly took care of
  6. 15. A rope with a noose at one end to catch cattle or horses
  7. 17. Area of time when ranchers went bankrupt
  8. 18. Ranchers would round up their cattle and go on a trip to the closet railroad to sell them
Down
  1. 1. Adventure books that sold for a dime and helped spread myths about the west to eastern towns
  2. 3. The place where the cowboys will send their cattle to get slaughtered
  3. 5. The people who introduced cattle ranching in America
  4. 6. Vast area of grassland owned by the government
  5. 7. A trail most ranchers would take to Abilene
  6. 8. A enslaved man who went west after the civil war that applied for work at a cattle drive
  7. 10. a new type of fence to prevent livestock from leaving grazing area
  8. 11. Stray calves with no identifying symbols
  9. 13. Fighting of trails against sheep herd and cattle drives
  10. 14. A man who is on horseback who herds the cattle
  11. 16. Time when blizzards covered the ground so deep which met that cattle couldn't graze anymore
  12. 17. Railroads reached the Great Plains