History

1. Self appointed volunteers to track down and punish wrongdoers.
5. Who was the Great Plain home to for centuries?
6. Who was a former slave that became a cowhand and a cattle driver?
7. who developed tools or techniques for rounding up and driving cattle?
10. What were stray calves with no identifying marks called?
11. Payments to reservation dwellers, at least once a year.
12. An area of grassland owned by the government.
15. Using simple equipment to mine like picks, shovels, and pans.
16. What Native American chief asked traders to provide his people with food on credit?
17. What group of Native Americans had a close relationship with nature?
18. What invention enabled hundreds of square miles to be fenced of cheaply?
19. How many longhorns roamed the grasslands of Texas in 1865?

2. The trail where cowboys drove about 1.5 million head of cattle on.
3. Digging deep below the surface to mine.
4. An example of growing hostilities between the Native Americans and settlers.
8. What was the sticky, blue-gray mud found in Nevada called?
9. Native American who roamed cast distances, following their main source of food.
13. Which prospector staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada?
14. 1862 was the first major clash on the _____?
16. Driving the cattle to the north, to the rail lines.