Across
- 8. invented the sleeping car
- 9. _____ barons controlled the nation's rail traffic
- 11. invented air brakes and the transformer
- 12. a financial aid given to railroads and other companies
- 13. _____ collapse of the mid 1880s marked the end of the cattle kingdom
- 14. one danger in the cattle drive
- 17. burning a symbol into an animals hide
- 18. Homesteaders who charged across the Oklahoma border on April 22, 1889
Down
- 1. the combining of seprate companies
- 2. deal out their brand of justice in boomtowns
- 3. ___________ railroad connected the Atlantic and Pacific
- 4. A ______ gauge was adopted by all railroad companies by the 1880s
- 5. African Americans who moved west to by cowboys
- 6. built the Great Northern Line
- 7. railroad tracks were originally made of_____
- 10. secret discounts
- 13. secret agreements
- 15. rich deposits of silver streaks
- 16. gave an expansion into the west
- 17. followed by busts led to ghost towns