Growth of the West
Across
- 6. free land to settlers through this law
- 8. another name for individual miner
- 9. cattle taken to railroads via this
- 12. farmer of the Great Plains
- 13. type of mining that uses high pressure hoses
- 14. this devastates cattle industry in 1887-88
Down
- 1. gold discovered here in Colorado
- 2. Hispanic neighborhoods in cities of SW
- 3. silver strikes in this southern Arizona town
- 4. wrote a thesis on importance of frontier
- 5. invented first mechanical reaper for farming
- 7. cattle ranching huge in this state
- 10. rich silver strikes in this state
- 11. this justice reigned in mining towns
- 12. season where cattle were driven to railroads