The Old West

5. A private detective agency established in the 1850s in the US, known for providing security services and for its involvement in labor disputes and strikes
6. a practice of moving large herds of cattle from one place to another
7. Graveyard for gunslingers in the American Wild West
12. Area of land set aside for indigenous people
14. A trail used by cattle drives from Texas to Kansas in the late 19th century
15. African American soldiers who served in the western United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

1. A treaty signed between the US government and several Native American tribes, establishing territorial boundaries and rights for the tribes in the western US
2. 1887 US law that aimed to assimilate Native Americans by breaking up reservations and giving individual households plots of land
3. Convory of covered wagons used to migrate to the western United States in the 19th century
4. a federal law from 1862 that gave 160 acres of public land to settlers who agreed to live and work on it for 5 years
8. A horse-and-rider courier service delivering mail across the US before the transcontinental telegraph railway
9. a period of rapid and chaotic settlement of the previously unsettled land
10. Native American religious movement of the late 19th century
11. Forced relocation of Native Americans in 1830s resulting in thousands of deaths
13. rodeo participant