Across
- 2. what type of mining dug deep beneath the surface?
- 6. built in the 1880s
- 8. what prices were low before the war and high after?
- 9. discovery made near Pikes Peak in 1858
- 11. developed the tools and techniques for rounding up and driving cattle.
- 12. Trail what trail was used to drive up a head of cattle?
- 16. What could be sold 10 times the price they could get in Texas?
- 18. What was formed in order to track down and punish wrongdoers.
- 19. A vast area of grassland owned by the government.
- 20. Second largest city in the west after San Francisco
- 21. discovery of gold here lead to development of the northern great plains
Down
- 1. is named after the mechanical musical instrument
- 3. What became the major route north?
- 4. One of the richest strikes occurred here in the late 1870s
- 5. enabled hundreds of square miles to be fenced off cheaply and easily
- 7. What type of mining used simple equipment like picks, shovels, and pans?
- 10. This mining town was first inhabited by mostly men
- 13. stray calves with no identifying symbols
- 14. West's rich deposit of these 4 things gold, silver
- 15. Prospector who staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada.
- 17. Type of cattle breeds to adapt to living on the Great Plains