Rilee's Wild West Crossword

5. Spanish term for cowboy
6. Many native americans were called
9. Buffalo Bill's real name (2w)
11. Cattle disease that longhorns were immune to (2w)
13. Ranches that covered thousands of acres
16. Brothers involved in the shootout at O.K.Corral (2w)
17. Mining in which deep shafts are dug and miners go underground to extract the minerals (2w)
21. Were killed by the army to force Native americans onto reservations
22. How did Belle Starr die
23. Towns in the west that popped up almost overnight
24. Someone who would rebrand cattle and call it their own
26. On what day did Leiutenent Colonel George A. Custer launch an attack on one of the biggest groups of native american warriors (2w)
27. Before the term “cowboy” was used men who hauled cattle were called

1. Large area where ranchers would herd their cattle for free (2w)
2. Wild Bill Hickock’s most famous horse (2w)
3. Doc Sturlock was born in what state
4. When ranchers rounded up cattle and hauled them to Sedalia, Missouri was called the first (2w)
7. Swarms of ____ ruined crops on the frontier
8. Annie Oakley known as
10. The Dawes Act divided reservations into what
12. The governor of Missouri issued a grant of 10,000 dollars for Frank and Jesse ____.
14. Indian chief who fought with sittingbull during indian wars (2w)
15. Knocked kernals loose from the stalks (2w)
18. Crazy Horse, Sittingbull and Red Cloud were the chiefs of what tribe
19. Great plains farmer
20. A fight in which 2 people or 2 groups of people shoot at each other with guns
25. A tract of private land available for settlement