Life on the Great Plains - Cowboys

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Across
  1. 3. to identify their own cattle ranchers did this into the cattle’s hide to identify them
  2. 7. Kansas across Plains to Montana where cattle could run wild on open range
  3. 8. after the Civil War demand for this increased to feed miners, cities in the East, railroad crews and soldiers
  4. 9. Texas ranchers drove herds North to railroad liners in Kansas in the spring along cattle trails
Down
  1. 1. strays from cattle ranches that grew into wild cattle and roamed freely across the Texas plains
  2. 2. farmers used this to fence in their fields and keep cattle from trampling them (open range disappeared)
  3. 4. town at end of trail along railroad before shipping cattle out East
  4. 5. stampedes, crossing rivers, grass fires, swamps, attacks
  5. 6. drove along side herds to the market and kept the cattle moving, round up strays (1 in 3 were Mexican, black, Native American)