The West

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