Growth of the West

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