The American West

4. a man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattle, especially in the western US and as represented in westerns and novels.
6. the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
7. was a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 American Indians of the "Five Civilized Tribes".
8. a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico.
10. a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads.
12. regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
13. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
14. the action of reserving something.

1. it was believed, would drive away white people and restore the traditional lands and way of life.
2. the given name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States.
3. authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands.
5. originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
9. a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States.
10. the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses.
11. an event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened to homestead on a first-arrival basis.