Across
- 3. posed a serious problem during mining booms
- 6. ranchers drove 260,000 cattle here in 1866
- 7. State where longhorns were from
- 9. breed of cattle that could survive in the plains
- 11. Last name of the African American cowboy who was enslaved in Tennessee
- 13. Stray calves with no identifying symbols
- 14. people who went north with the herds of cattle
- 16. product that enabled hundreds of square miles to be fenced cheaply and easily (two words)
- 17. Main animal ranchers raised
- 19. adventure books that sold for a dime about the adventures of cowboys (two words)
Down
- 1. The discovery of gold and copper in Montana and the Dakota Territory led to rapid development of this (two words)
- 2. Prices for this soared during the Civil War
- 4. A town in Kansas that rivaled the mining towns in terms of rowdiness
- 5. caused prices for cattle to drop and ranchers to go bankrupt
- 8. Last name of the prospector who found silver in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada
- 9. Mine with deep deposits of lead that contained large amounts of silver
- 10. A town that rapidly increased in population when gold or silver was discovered, but died out when the mines closed
- 12. Grew to the second largest city in the west after the mining bonanza
- 15. Mining deep beneath the surface (two words)
- 16. Mines in Colorado yielded $1 _______ in gold and silver
- 18. covered the ground with snow and made grazing difficult for cattle