Mining and Ranching
Across
- 2. Cowboys drove nearly 1.5 million head of cattle up the _____ Trail.
- 7. Extracting the shallow deposits of ore by hand.
- 9. Americans did not think cattle ranches on the Great Plains were _____.
- 10. Stray calves with no identifying symbols.
- 11. Mining spurred the development of _____, the Dakota Territory and Montana.
- 12. Colorado yielded more than $1 billion worth of silver and _____.
- 13. The drive to Missouri was a huge success and the cattle were able to be sold for _____ times the price in Texas.
- 14. The _____ of gold near Pikes Peak in 1858 set miners on a frantic rush.
- 15. News of mineral strike in the area may start a _____.
- 18. In 1866 ranchers _____ up cattle and drive to Sedalia, Missouri.
- 19. Billions of gold and silver found in Colorado spurred the building of _____.
- 20. A vast area of grassland owned by the government.
Down
- 1. discovered gold in the Black Hills and _____ in Montana.
- 3. Mexicans introduced cattle _____ in New Mexico, California, and Texas.
- 4. Punished the _____ or the let guilty go free.
- 5. _____ showed which rancher owned the cattle.
- 6. During the Civil War, eastern cattle were _____ to feed the armies.
- 8. Sticky, blue-grey mud found in Nevada.
- 15. After the war beef prices _____.
- 16. Digging deep under the surface to extract ore.
- 17. Ranchers in Mexico and Texas allowed there cattle to run wild, and slowly a new breed had emerged, the _____.