Texas Studies Weekly Week #22

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Across
  1. 4. Charles Goodnight was one of the founding fathers of the Texas _____________.
  2. 5. The most important cattle trail in Texas.
  3. 6. The American Indian tribes became __________ on the government for food and supplies.
  4. 7. Today, the King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas, is one of the __________ cattle ranches in the United States.
  5. 8. The cattle boom eventually led to the use of _____________ across the open plains of Texas.
  6. 9. Lizzie Johnson Williams earned her nickname, "_____________," shortly after starting her cattle business.
Down
  1. 1. raising cattle as an alternative to growing crops
  2. 2. The loss of the _______ is perhaps one of the greatest injuries the western American Indian tribes suffered.
  3. 3. In order to make money, ranchers had to guide the cattle down trails for hundreds and hundreds of miles.
  4. 5. People who knew they could raise cows on the good Texas land. They also knew they could make a lot of money selling the cows.