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Across
  1. 3. a former slave turned to a cowboy
  2. 4. a railroad that crosses a entire continent
  3. 5. a law passed by congress in 1862 offering free loans and land to companies building the railroad
  4. 8. a cattle trail used to herd longhorn
  5. 11. Someone who claimed the land from the homestead act
Down
  1. 1. used on the very last rail to finish its completion
  2. 2. A person who settled early prior to the opening to settlement to gain the claim
  3. 6. a name given to the railroad
  4. 7. young men from texas to herd cattle north
  5. 9. granted 160 acres of land if you could farm it for 5 years
  6. 10. a house built out of sod strips typically where timber was scarce