Across
- 2. a farmer who, in exchange for labor, is provided with seed, tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop
- 5. a state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests
- 6. a group of investors who join together to fund a business
- 9. a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses
- 11. public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle
- 12. a place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere
- 13. Spanish ranchers
Down
- 1. barbed-wire fence used to prevent livestock from drifting off the land
- 3. the small, hardy horse of the West, descended from horses brought by the Spanish
- 4. the movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market
- 7. farming approach that uses plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist
- 8. a person who moves livestock overland to market
- 10. a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop