Across
- 2. those who plowed soil on the Plains
- 5. groups that tracked down and punished wrongdoers
- 6. 10,000 people raced to stake claims in the Oklahoma territory
- 9. for $10 an individual could file for a homestead
- 11. prospector who claimed Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada
- 12. public land available for settlement
- 13. planting seeds deep in the ground so they could grow
- 16. enabled hundreds of miles to be fenced of cheaply and easily
- 17. payments to reservation dwellers
- 18. stray calves with no identifying symbols
- 19. huge farms that yielded large profits
- 20. explored the “Great American Desert” (great plains)
Down
- 1. problem for farmers in the late 1880s
- 3. vast area of grassland owned by the government
- 4. trail used to drive up 1.5 million cattle from 1867 to 1871
- 7. tied stalks into bundles for collection
- 8. region from the Rocky Mountains to the 100th meridian
- 10. rounding up cattle and moving them
- 14. people who roamed vast distances
- 15. farming area that included the Dakotas and western Nebraska and Kansas