Across
- 7. unidentified calves that wondered off from their mothers
- 8. an agreement between governments
- 10. measured for mapping
- 11. marks burned into a hide that identified ranch ownership
- 13. give up
- 14. an order issued by the president of the United States
- 15. slang for food
- 16. the branch of government that passes laws
- 17. caretakers
- 19. land a tribe reserved for its own use through treaties
- 20. injection needles
- 21. sheep meat
- 22. something handed down from the past
- 24. a cooperative effort to round up, sort, and brand cattle in a region, then trail the herd home
Down
- 1. hard-working
- 2. ranching operations
- 3. animal food for grazing
- 4. ancestors
- 5. Spanish for "cowboys"
- 6. dry areas of land
- 9. imaginative
- 12. vacationers who wanted the experience of the west
- 15. slang for beginner cowboy
- 18. rounding up cattle or horses for the intent of thievery
- 23. dried