vocabulary words
Across
- 1. people who sneaked onto land
- 4. self appointed law keepers
- 6. town settlement at the end of a cattle trail
- 11. railroad line that spanned the continent
- 12. small sled
- 15. drive herding and moving cattle over long distance
- 16. kingdom region dominated by the cattle industry and it's ranches, trails, and cow towns
- 17. groups of farmers who met for lectures sewing bee and other events
- 18. surface layer of each in which the roots of grasses tangle with soil
Down
- 1. grants of land or money
- 2. land set aside of native Americans to live on
- 3. settlers who acquired free land from the government
- 5. bull attacks to keep whites out
- 7. Jennings Bryan the great commoner
- 8. as general rise in prices
- 9. Spanish word for cowhand or cowboy
- 10. cooperatives farmers who pool their money to make large purchases of tools, seeds, and other supplies at a discount
- 12. cone shaped tents made of buffalo skins
- 13. range unfenced land
- 14. buster plain farmers