Cowboys and The West

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Across
  1. 2. How the cattle drover showed his mastery
  2. 4. What cattle owners would do to identify the steers from the rest of the herd
  3. 5. The tradition of cattle raising was learned from them by the Texans
  4. 6. One of the cowboys' greatest fears, often solved by getting the cattle to run in circles
  5. 8. What the Native Americans began calling barbed wire
  6. 11. Were often costly and were difficult to get on the prairie and plans
  7. 15. Path created by Joseph McCoy that stretched from Texas to Abilene, Kansas
  8. 16. Improved fencing and simplified the work of a farmer
  9. 18. Worn as protection from spikes and pointy cactus
  10. 19. The cowboys would do this in order to sort count the cattle
  11. 20. On the driver, cattle could roam and graze on the open land.
Down
  1. 1. Worn over the face to as protection from the kicked up dust from the cattle
  2. 3. A group of cowboys would take their cattle to market to be sold for a higher price
  3. 7. Open all hours to service cowboys from the long drive
  4. 9. What a group of cowboys were called when driving their cattle
  5. 10. Sometimes stole the steers
  6. 12. First inventor of barbed wire
  7. 13. The amount of hours a workday lasted, most of which was in the saddle
  8. 14. Known as "the winner". Sought to improve Kelly's invention of barbed wire
  9. 17. The event of barbed wire and the end of the freedom of the rancher and cowboy was lamented in this Cole Porter song.