Across
- 2. Also known as William Frederick Cody
- 4. a tract of public land available for settlement
- 6. cast area of grassland that the federal government owned
- 10. act that granted all Native Americans citizenship
- 13. Someone who roamed the land following a food source with no permanent home
- 15. cattle thief in cowboy culture
- 17. corral located in Tombstone and held a gunfight that lasted less than a minute
- 18. A vast area of grassland owned by the government where ranchers could graze their herds for free
- 19. Famous woman sharpshooter in the Buffalo Bill Cody Show
- 20. The major long drive route from Texas to Ablilene, Kansas,
- 23. most notorious cowtown in Kansas
- 25. the spanish word for cowboys
- 26. self appointed volunteers to enforce the law
- 27. cattle breed descended from Spanish cattle
Down
- 1. Name given to African American soldiers who served in the U.S. Army
- 3. banned ritual performed by the Lakota that celebrated a hoped for day of reckoning
- 5. part of the Great Plains where wheat was the dominant crop
- 7. leader of the Nez Perce who refused to move to a small reservation in Idaho in 1877
- 8. hispanic settled neighborhoods
- 9. Act of 1887 that regulated land rights on tribal territories.
- 10. Sioux chief who tricked William Fetterman to pursue a small raiding party
- 11. men in the old west with a reputation as being dangerous with a gun.
- 12. type of mining that removed large quantities of earth by spraying high pressures of water
- 14. American outlaw and leader of the James-Younger Gang
- 16. type of mining that diverted the current of a river into trenches
- 21. battle where George Custer was killed by Cheyenne and Lakota warriors.
- 22. African American cowboy who invented “bulldogging”.
- 24. tiny frontier towns quickly growing into cities due to mineral strikes