Across
- 5. a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems
- 6. several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain
- 7. a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads
- 12. originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army
- 13. A historical event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened for homesteading on a first-come-first-served basis.
- 14. the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses
Down
- 1. American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders
- 2. created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle
- 3. regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States
- 4. an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks
- 8. a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 American Indians of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850
- 9. the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially
- 10. a convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons, as used by pioneers or settlers in North America.
- 11. a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency
- 12. the given name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States. During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common name for the burial grounds of gunfighters'