Across
- 2. Symbol used to mark the cattle that belonged to a rancher (5)
- 3. Kind of house built by homesteaders who were short of wood (3)
- 6. Inventor of the wind pump (8)
- 9. The … Act – passed in 1877 giving homesteaders the opportunity to buy 640 acres of poor land very cheaply (6)
- 10. Used by homesteaders for fuel when there was no wood available (3,5)
- 11. Plagues of these insects devastated homesteaders’ crops in 1871, 1874 and 1875 (12)
- 14. Hardy Russian wheat that grew well on the Great Plain (6,3)
- 15. Cow town founded by Joseph McCoy (7)
- 17. Began the Open range (5)
- 19. protected a cowboy’s neck in the sun, or could be used as a mask to avoid breathing in too much dust (7)
- 20. Stealing cattle (8)
Down
- 1. rope used to catch cattle (6)
- 3. Strong plough invented by John Deere (3,6)
- 4. Kind of farming which involves ploughing just after heavy rain or snow 930
- 5. Partner to Oliver Loving. Together they drove cattle from Texas to Fort Sumner in New Mexico (9)
- 7. Looked after the horses on the cattle drive (8)
- 8. The … Act – passed in 1862 giving people the opportunity to have 160 acres of land on the Great Plains free if they lived on it and farmed it for 5 years (9)
- 12. A sudden rush of large numbers of cattle caused by something frightening or startling them (8)
- 13. In charge of a cattle drive (5,4)
- 16. The … Culture Act – passed in 1873 to give homesteaders another 160 acres of land, so long as they planted trees on 40 acres (6)
- 18. Wire invented by Joseph Gliddon in 1874