Across
- 2. towns in Kansas where cattle were driven to and loaded onto trains for transport, usually back east
- 5. Mexican cowboy
- 7. Groups of farmers who met and supported one another
- 8. "Early" settlers of the OK land rush of 1889
- 9. untended land where cattle were left to graze
- 10. cattle drives from Texas to railway towns in Kansas
Down
- 1. settlers who acquired free land from the govt
- 3. African American settlers (70,000) who migrated from the south to the Great Plains, especially Kansas. Many became farmers.
- 4. Plains farmers who used steel plows and drills
- 6. A law passed by Congress in 1862 offering 160-acre plots of land to anyone who resided on the land for 5 years, worked the land, and built a home.