Across
- 1. The invention ended the long drive and closed the frontie
- 4. Someone who roamed great distances
- 6. What were rancher looking for
- 7. Built huge cattle ranches on the great plains
- 8. Mammal, Inidans got all there things from
- 12. What most of boomtowns became once gone
- 13. "Great American Desert
- 15. Offered 160 acres of land for those willing to farm it for 5 years
- 16. This is many pioneers used to build their homes on the plains
Down
- 2. Quick growing towns in the west
- 3. Were built fromt he east to west so that cattle could be driven to markets easier
- 5. General in the battle of little bighorn
- 9. Native Americans war leader of the Oglala Lakota in the battle
- 10. These people went to the west to drive cattle
- 11. Gave each Indian family 160 acres of land to farm
- 14. Miners looking for?