Across
- 2. First party of 60 people to use the California trail west
- 3. Miners who took other miners' claims illegally
- 7. Route west cutting through a small isthmus in this country
- 8. A small area of land that a miner marked as his own
- 11. Mining by using a gold pan with dirt and water
Down
- 1. Route west by land
- 4. Someone who looks for mineral deposits in an area
- 5. Water power
- 6. sprinkling gold dust or small nuggets around a claim to make it seems profitable
- 9. Route west around the southernmost tip of South America
- 10. Group that became stranded after trying to take the Hastings cutoff west