COLORADO

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Across
  1. 3. Colorado is one of the ________ growing states
  2. 6. _________ is the largest city in the southern plains of Colorado
  3. 8. Indian ______ houses and cliff dwellings can be seen at Mesa Verde National Park
  4. 9. Pikes _______ is the most famous mountain in Colorado
  5. 10. Thousands of prospectors who searched for gold in 1859 were called fifty-_______
  6. 12. The _________ and Cheyenne Indians agreed to move to Oklahoma in 1867
  7. 13. During the Civil _______, the Colorado Volunteers helped the Union Army win a victory in New Mexico
  8. 17. In 1848, _________ ceded western Colorado to the USA
  9. 18. Katherin Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful" after she saw the view from the _____ of Pikes Peak
  10. 19. During World War II, Colorado became a center for _______ facilities
  11. 21. The Colorado Plateau has _________ ravines and gorges
  12. 24. Abbreviation for Colorado
  13. 26. Colorado is shaped like a __________
  14. 28. The highest incorporated city in the U.S. is ________, a city which began as a silver-mining camp
  15. 29. ____________ sheep, antelope, prairie dogs, and jackrabbits live in the high plains
  16. 31. The Continental _________ is an imaginary geographic line that runs through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado
  17. 32. William Green Russell led a party of _______-seekers from Georgia to Colorado in 1858
  18. 34. Colorado has more than 30 _______ resorts
  19. 35. Lieutenant Zebulon Pike was the first American to ______ the man that was named after him
  20. 37. ________ is a ski resort which looks like an Alpine village
  21. 38. John Gregory discovered a rich lode of gold _____ near Denver City in 1859
  22. 39. Tourists can ______ to the top of Pikes Peak on the Incline Railway
  23. 40. The _________ Range is the highest mountain range in Colorado
  24. 41. The San Juan Mountains are in southwestern Colorado
Down
  1. 1. The slogan of the fifty-niners was "Pikes Peak or _________"
  2. 2. Colorado has the highest mean ______ of the 50 states
  3. 4. _________ Corners Monument is where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona meet
  4. 5. Colorado has over 1,000 _______ Mountain peaks over 10,000 feet high
  5. 7. The University of Colorado is in _________
  6. 9. The Louisiana __________ gave the USA most of eastern Colorado in 1803
  7. 11. Colorado is called the "_______ State"
  8. 14. ________ is a glamorous ski resort in the winter and a "think tank" in the summer
  9. 15. Companies in Colorado control half of the ________ production in the USA
  10. 16. Chief Ouray was an ______ Indian who tried to make peace between his people and white settlers
  11. 20. Colorado became the thirty-_______ state in 1876
  12. 22. President Jefferson hired Zebulon _______ to explore the southwestern part of the Louisiana Territory
  13. 23. Grand Junction is the largest city west of the ________ Divide in Colorado
  14. 24. The _______ River is the biggest river west of the Rocky Mountains
  15. 25. The U.S. Air Force Academy is in Colorado ___________
  16. 26. Colorado gets most of its ______ in the western mountains
  17. 27. The capital and largest city of Colorado is __________
  18. 29. The state motto is, "Nothing without _________"
  19. 30. ______ billion coins are produced every year at the U.S. Mint in Denver
  20. 33. ________ was discovered in 1875 at Leadville
  21. 36. ________, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, is located in Colorado Springs
  22. 40. Colorado was first visited by ________ explorers in the 1500s