Across
- 8. born enslaved and was freed after Civil War
- 9. used to track down and punish wrongdoers
- 12. adventure books sold for a dime and helped spread myths of the Wild West
- 13. staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada
- 14. discovery of gold in 1858
- 15. digging deep beneath the surface
- 17. houses where women danced with men for the price of a drink
- 18. increase in wealth and profits
- 21. during the Civil War they were killed in big numbers to feed the armies of the Union and Confederacy
- 22. was a way to block off hundred of square miles
Down
- 1. proved cattle could be driven north to the rail lines and sold for 10 times
- 2. breed descended from Spanish cattle
- 3. there was plenty of gold and silver in
- 4. One of the most legendary boomtowns for mining
- 5. place cowboys drove about 1.5 million cattle
- 6. using shovels and picks to extract deposits of ore
- 7. what people began building after the Civil War
- 10. discovery of gold in the Black Hills and Copper in Montana led to rapid development in
- 11. first elevator
- 16. stray calves with no identifying symbols
- 19. town that rivaled the mining towns in terms of rowdiness
- 20. vast area of grassland owned by the government