Across
- 3. A half of the country that needed food after the Civil War, causing the cattle drives.
- 4. The amount of cattle that lived in Texas at the time of the civil war.
- 6. Protective coverage for the cowboy's pants.
- 8. Population of cattle in Texas after the civil war
- 10. A type of cattle that was a result of cross breeding of Spanish cattle and English Cattle.
- 11. The law passed that sold land in kansas for free.
- 14. The invention that changed the cattle industry.
- 15. This was the main reason for the sudden increase in population in Kansas during the 1860s through the 1900s.
- 17. The trail passing through Kansas going to New Mexico.
- 18. The human population in Kansas, in 1860-1900s did this.
- 19. The invention that farmers made to protect their crops from cattle traveling through Kansas.
- 21. People that herded cattle from Texas to Kansas.
Down
- 1. The trail passing through Kansas going to Oregon and California.
- 2. People that hunted and worshiped buffalo.
- 5. People that didn't support the cattle drives because it interfered with business.
- 7. Ownership or control of a supply.
- 9. The leading ethnic group that lived in Kansas at the time.
- 12. The name for the trip the cowboys walked the cattle on to Kansas.
- 13. State that profited from the cowboys
- 16. First cowtown developed.
- 20. Animals that almost went extinct in Kansas.