Across
- 4. a cowhand of Hispanic origin
- 5. types of homes people would live in on the Great Plains
- 7. to earn ownership of land by living on it
- 8. name given to farmers on the Great Plains
- 9. What most most labeled the Great Plains at the time due to the thought that it was unfarmable
- 12. location of the closest railroad to Texas
- 13. a farming method that depends on plowing after every rain and trapping moisture in the soil in dry, non-irrigated land
Down
- 1. tough breed of cattle in Texas
- 2. law that gave up to 160 acres of land to any head of a family who paid a $10 filing fee and lived on the land for five years
- 3. trail that ran from central Texas to Abilene, Kansas that cattle hands would follow on the long drives
- 6. a trip of several hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads and distant markets
- 10. name given to these railroad towns at the end of the long drives
- 11. name given to early Great Plains farmers