Homesteaders and Cowboys

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Across
  1. 2. Symbol used to mark the cattle that belonged to a rancher (5)
  2. 3. Kind of house built by homesteaders who were short of wood (3)
  3. 6. Inventor of the wind pump (8)
  4. 9. The … Act – passed in 1877 giving homesteaders the opportunity to buy 640 acres of poor land very cheaply (6)
  5. 10. Used by homesteaders for fuel when there was no wood available (3,5)
  6. 11. Plagues of these insects devastated homesteaders’ crops in 1871, 1874 and 1875 (12)
  7. 14. Hardy Russian wheat that grew well on the Great Plain (6,3)
  8. 15. Cow town founded by Joseph McCoy (7)
  9. 17. Began the Open range (5)
  10. 19. protected a cowboy’s neck in the sun, or could be used as a mask to avoid breathing in too much dust (7)
  11. 20. Stealing cattle (8)
Down
  1. 1. rope used to catch cattle (6)
  2. 3. Strong plough invented by John Deere (3,6)
  3. 4. Kind of farming which involves ploughing just after heavy rain or snow 930
  4. 5. Partner to Oliver Loving. Together they drove cattle from Texas to Fort Sumner in New Mexico (9)
  5. 7. Looked after the horses on the cattle drive (8)
  6. 8. The … Act – passed in 1862 giving people the opportunity to have 160 acres of land on the Great Plains free if they lived on it and farmed it for 5 years (9)
  7. 12. A sudden rush of large numbers of cattle caused by something frightening or startling them (8)
  8. 13. In charge of a cattle drive (5,4)
  9. 16. The … Culture Act – passed in 1873 to give homesteaders another 160 acres of land, so long as they planted trees on 40 acres (6)
  10. 18. Wire invented by Joseph Gliddon in 1874