The West
Across
- 3. Led to development of new states
- 9. New Invention that fenced off area from other ranchers
- 10. Price of this soared after the war
- 12. Type of mining that would go deep beneath the surface
- 14. Early way of transporting cattle to different places by ranchers and horses
- 15. Why did the cattle industry slow down in the USA
- 17. Introduced ranching to the U.S.
- 18. Houses where women would dance with men for a price of a drink
- 19. Main state that had ranching
- 20. Trail that ran cattle from texas to Kansas
- 21. These were formed to track down and punish wrongdoers
Down
- 1. Vast area of grassland owned by the government
- 2. Type of cattle that was good for grazing
- 4. Type of mining that would extract ore by hand
- 5. This was a problem in boomtowns
- 6. Who owned most of the grazing land
- 7. Rich Deposits of Gold, Silver and, Copper
- 8. He staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon and found nearly pure silver ore
- 11. Where most of the meat that was butchered from the longhorns go
- 13. Helped ship cattle to be sold for profit
- 16. Name of first elevator