Across
- 2. How the cattle drover showed his mastery
- 4. What cattle owners would do to identify the steers from the rest of the herd
- 5. The tradition of cattle raising was learned from them by the Texans
- 6. One of the cowboys' greatest fears, often solved by getting the cattle to run in circles
- 8. What the Native Americans began calling barbed wire
- 11. Were often costly and were difficult to get on the prairie and plans
- 15. Path created by Joseph McCoy that stretched from Texas to Abilene, Kansas
- 16. Improved fencing and simplified the work of a farmer
- 18. Worn as protection from spikes and pointy cactus
- 19. The cowboys would do this in order to sort count the cattle
- 20. On the driver, cattle could roam and graze on the open land.
Down
- 1. Worn over the face to as protection from the kicked up dust from the cattle
- 3. A group of cowboys would take their cattle to market to be sold for a higher price
- 7. Open all hours to service cowboys from the long drive
- 9. What a group of cowboys were called when driving their cattle
- 10. Sometimes stole the steers
- 12. First inventor of barbed wire
- 13. The amount of hours a workday lasted, most of which was in the saddle
- 14. Known as "the winner". Sought to improve Kelly's invention of barbed wire
- 17. The event of barbed wire and the end of the freedom of the rancher and cowboy was lamented in this Cole Porter song.