Across
- 4. dealt out their own brand of justice in boomtown
- 9. The price collapse of the mid 1880s marked the end of the
- 10. James J. Hill built the Great Northern Line
- 12. The----- helped pave the way for an expansion into the west.
- 13. were one of the dangers of the cattle drive
- 15. were rich deposits of silver streaks
- 16. Railroad tracks were originally made of
- 17. were secret agreements
- 18. were secret discounts
- 19. were financial aid given to railroads and other companies
Down
- 1. is the combining of separate companies
- 2. invented air brakes and the transformer
- 3. controlled the nation's rail traffic
- 5. The transcontinental railroad connected the
- 6. invented the sleeping car
- 7. towns Booms followed by busts led to
- 8. standard gauge was adopted by all------by the 1880s.
- 11. Burning a symbol into the hide of an animal is called a brand
- 14. African Americans who moved west to be cowboys were called
- 20. Homesteaders who charged across the Oklahoma border on April 22, 1889 were called