Across
- 1. cattle rounded up and driven north to railheads
- 5. invented the first steel plow
- 7. additional land to build irrigation
- 9. "panning"
- 10. were built prior to the civil war; were a lot safter to travel than wagon
- 12. series of gold and silver strikes
- 13. were sacred animals to the Indians, they used every part of them to adapt to their environment.
- 14. towns that seemed to appear over night near mining sights
- 15. established experimental stations to research grains that could survive the great plains
Down
- 2. additional land to plant trees
- 3. a cattle breed that began in Texas
- 4. 160 acres of free land to who could live on it and develop it for five years
- 6. were forced to go further and further west
- 8. uses wind to pump water from beneath the earth's surface
- 11. white ________ destroyed the natural environment of the Indians when they hunted down the buffalo and basically made them extinct because they used every aspect of the buffalo in their daily life to make homes, weapons, clothes, etc.