Cotton, Cattle & Railroads
Across
- 4. Texas Governor that created the Railroad Commission
- 7. Transportation that increased speed of travel and communication
- 10. The Last Comanche chief
- 11. An animal herder on horseback that led cattle drives
- 12. Wanted to close the open range
- 13. New industry that begins after the Civil War in Texas
- 14. Mean name for a daughter
- 15. The place where Native Americans were forced to move
- 17. Invention that allowed farmers to close the open range
- 20. The belief the U.S. was "destined" by God to expand across the continent
- 21. Routes taken by cowboys to the railroads in the North
- 22. The collective battles on the Great Plains between the U.S. Government & Native Americans
Down
- 1. African-American military group created to fight Native Americans on the frontier
- 2. President that began the removal of Native Americans from the east coast of the U.S.
- 3. The site of an attempted treaty between Plains Native Americans and the U.S. Government
- 5. The man that invented bared wire
- 6. Quanah Parker's tribe
- 8. The forced removal of Native Americans from the East Coast to reservations in Oklahoma
- 9. Animal native to the Great Plains that was hunted to near-extinction
- 16. Cattle were allowed to roam freely without fences or barriers
- 18. Main crop grown in Texas and the South
- 19. 1861-1865