Chapter 8 Crossword

2. People who helped on the cattle drives
3. A sudden panicked rush of animals
4. How many longhorns roamed the grasslands of Texas
9. A rope used as a lasso
12. A breed of cattle the ranchers mostly took care of
15. A rope with a noose at one end to catch cattle or horses
17. Area of time when ranchers went bankrupt
18. Ranchers would round up their cattle and go on a trip to the closet railroad to sell them

1. Adventure books that sold for a dime and helped spread myths about the west to eastern towns
3. The place where the cowboys will send their cattle to get slaughtered
5. The people who introduced cattle ranching in America
6. Vast area of grassland owned by the government
7. A trail most ranchers would take to Abilene
8. A enslaved man who went west after the civil war that applied for work at a cattle drive
10. a new type of fence to prevent livestock from leaving grazing area
11. Stray calves with no identifying symbols
13. Fighting of trails against sheep herd and cattle drives
14. A man who is on horseback who herds the cattle
16. Time when blizzards covered the ground so deep which met that cattle couldn't graze anymore
17. Railroads reached the Great Plains