vocab
Across
- 1. town settlement at the end of a cattle trail
- 5. cooperatives are groups of farmers who pool their money to make large purchases of tools, seed, and other supplies at a discount
- 9. railroad a railroad line that spanned the continent
- 11. cone-shaped tents made of buffalo skins
- 12. a surface layer of earth in which the roots of the grass tangle with the soil sodbusters plain farmers
- 14. land set aside for Native Americans to live on
- 17. people who had already sneaked onto the land
- 18. drive herding and moving cattle over long distances
Down
- 2. jennings bryan democrat known as the great commoner
- 3. a general rise in prices
- 4. self-appointed law keepers
- 6. kingdom region dominated by the cattle industry
- 7. groups of farmers who met for lectures, sewing bees, and other event
- 8. small sleds
- 10. grants of land or money
- 13. range unfenced land
- 15. Spanish word for cowhand, or cowboy
- 16. settlers who acquired free land from the government
- 17. bull led attacks to keep whites out