The Great Plains

2. The flawed US General that led his troops to defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
5. People who went out west in pursuit of mining gold and other precious metals.
6. A common food source among Native Americans on the Great Plains.
7. African-Americans that fled westward for new opportunities as they avoided racial persecution.
10. Areas in which Indian people were forced to relocate to.
11. The breed of cattle that were brought up from Mexico as ranchers began developing in the US.
13. The government policy that offered free acres of land to settlers in turn for permanently living there.

1. The name for the journey in which cattle were guided from one area to another as they grazed on uninhabited grasslands.
2. Those in the American Southwest that ranched and raised cattle while maintaining a unique lifestyle.
3. A battle in the Indian Wars in which the Native Americans came out with their biggest victory.
4. The type of mining that required workers to dig and drill deep caverns into the earth to locate veins of ore.
8. The material that made up many houses on the plains due to the lack of lumber.
9. The type of mining that involves blasting pressurized water at high speeds to dig.
12. A large, famous area in the West that contained dense deposits of metal ores.