Across
- 2. These cowboys were treated much better on the range than anywhere else at the time.
- 8. A more western route through Texas up to Nebraska and other territories.
- 9. After slaves were freed in the south, many moved here to work on ranches.
- 12. Joseph McCoy chose this city for his main shipping point
- 13. A group of cows.
- 16. A synonym for “move.”
- 17. Out of the 35,000 cowboys that herded cows along western trails, this many were African-American.
- 18. The amount of years that the era of the cowboys and cattle trails lasted.
- 19. A person who owns land where animals are grown to eventually be sold.
Down
- 1. Abilene was a major shipping point in this state.
- 3. A well-traveled trail used by cattle ranchers.
- 4. Historians estimate that this many cattle made their way up Chisholm Trail from 1867 to the mid-1880s.
- 5. The demand for this was growing substantially after the end of the Civil War.
- 6. A part-Cherokee Native American who made a wagon trail along a certain route that would later be named after him.
- 7. What the state of Oklahoma used to be known as.
- 10. A cattle shipper from Illinois that had the idea to herd cattle north through Texas and meet up with railroads in Kansas.
- 11. From railroads in Kansas, cattle would be loaded into railcars and transported in this direction.
- 14. This method of transportation expanded greatly during the time of the mass cattle movement of the 1800s.
- 15. Animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America.
- 20. A place to show off skills by riding bulls and bucking broncos.