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- 4. A man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattle
- 5. A private security guard and detective agency established around 1850
- 7. The given name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States
- 9. Several laws by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain
- 10. The process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses
- 13. A trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads
- 14. A historical event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened for homesteading on a first-come-first-served basis
- 15. Members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army
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- 1. An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations
- 2. A dance that Indians believed would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits to fight on their behalf, end westward expansion, and bring peace
- 3. An American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders
- 6. A convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons
- 8. An area of land held and governed by a federally recognized Native American tribal nation whose government is accountable to the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs and not to the state government in which it is located
- 11. The ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850
- 12. The process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group