The Wild West
Across
- 2. put a person or thing in a successful position
- 4. a person
- 6. a place where few or no people live
- 7. when a town is deserted by the people
- 11. to build something
- 14. someone who provides the money to start a business
- 15. growth and progress
- 17. when gold was discovered in California
- 18. the land a prospector mines and calls his own
- 19. when a town grows rapidly
- 20. the number of people living in an area
Down
- 1. to make a guess
- 2. look around a new place
- 3. when there is only so much of something
- 5. the business of raising cattle for meat
- 8. something new that someone finds
- 9. something gets bigger and bigger
- 10. to dig underground to find gold, silver, or other material
- 12. a designated area for Indians to live
- 13. a pioneer who moved to the West
- 16. a country's system of business