Early ranching in Texas
Across
- 3. a means of permanent identification on cattle used to prove ownership
- 5. stray calves with no branding on them
- 9. a collection of cattle traveling and or living together
- 10. gathering cattle together
- 12. was the man in charge of the trail drive
- 13. grasslands that are used for grazing livestock
- 16. Goodnight and Oliver Loving created the Goodnight-Loving trail
Down
- 1. largest cattle ranch in the world
- 2. a long rope with a loop at the end for catching cattle
- 4. in 1880 it was the largest fenced ranch in the world with over 3 million acres
- 6. taught American cowboys their trade.
- 7. trail started by the Rio Grande and ended in Abilene Kansas
- 8. was in charge of the extra horses
- 11. when you bring a herd of cattle from one place to another
- 14. all the famous cattle trails led in this direction
- 15. the men that drove the cattle and watched over them
- 17. sudden rush of panicked livestock