SW Week 22 The Gold Rush Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. First party of 60 people to use the California trail west
  2. 3. Miners who took other miners' claims illegally
  3. 7. Route west cutting through a small isthmus in this country
  4. 8. A small area of land that a miner marked as his own
  5. 11. Mining by using a gold pan with dirt and water
Down
  1. 1. Route west by land
  2. 4. Someone who looks for mineral deposits in an area
  3. 5. Water power
  4. 6. sprinkling gold dust or small nuggets around a claim to make it seems profitable
  5. 9. Route west around the southernmost tip of South America
  6. 10. Group that became stranded after trying to take the Hastings cutoff west