Across
- 5. on December 29, 1890 a starving group of 350 Sioux Natives were rounded up by the Seventh Cavalry, demanded their weapons, a shot was fired and the whole group was slaughtered
- 6. the first cattle drive from Texas to Fort Sumner, New Mexico and then on to Colorado beginning in 1866
- 7. the poker hand of a pair of aces and eights held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was gunned down
- 8. a breed of cattle, originally from Spain, roaming Texas known for their hardiness and survivability on long cattle drives
- 9. the major route taken by most cattle drives from San Antonio, Texas through the Oklahoma Indian Territory and on to Kansas, where the railroad was
- 10. an 1862 law passed to offer ownership of 160 acre tracts of land to settlers willing to live there for 5 years and make improvements
Down
- 1. traveling entertainment depicting life in the west by William F. Cody, including mock battles, cowboys and Native Americans, including Chief Sitting Bull
- 2. Spanish cowboys of whom the American cowboy earned their trade, equipment and secrets
- 3. a spiritual movement among many Native tribes including the Sioux, which preached the return of all fallen warriors to fight the U.S. Army
- 4. the overland transport of cattle from Texas to the markets in Kansas, often lasting for 3 or 4 more months