Across
- 2. from railroads in Kansas, cattle would be loaded into railcars and transported in this direction
- 4. a group of cows
- 6. the demand for this was growing after the end of the Civil War
- 7. a more western route through Texas up to Nebraska
- 9. Abilene was a major shipping point in this state
- 10. historians estimate that this many cattle made their way up the Chisholm Trail from 1867-1880s
Down
- 1. these cowboys were treated much better on the range than anywhere else at the time
- 3. a synonym for move
- 5. a part-Cherokee trader who made a wagon trail along a certain route that would later be named after him.
- 8. this method of transportation expanded greatly during the time of the mass cattle movement