The West

3. Mining- Searching for gold by using pans to wash gold nuggets out of loose rocks
7. drive- moving cattle from distant range to busy railroad centers that shipped cattle to market
9. Mining- Method that uses mining under high pressure to blast away gravel and dirt
12. Board- Something cowboys said when they were telling the truth(honest)
13. Sour- What cowboys said when horses only wanted to stay in the barn
14. Trail- One of the earliest and most popular routes for cattle drives
17. An Undeveloped Area
18. the women of the tribes would remove the toxins from the pulp and create flour
19. Rock Mining- It requires cutting deep shafts in solid rock to extract the ore
20. Towns- communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened

1. Easy to build, to move, and made up of wood,leaves, and brush
2. Kingdom- The great plains from Texas to Canada, where many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800’s is called
4. Drive- One of the cowboy’s most important and dangerous duties was the
5. A crop that Native Americans in the west planted that would later become an important cash crop
6. people generally identified with family based bands
8. what a cowboy called someone young or new to the job
10. Lode- A huge deposit of Gold and silver in Nevada discovered by Henry Comstock in 1859
11. The Great Basin Natives were the first to create what to aid the fishing
15. case-what did cowboys call a hat
16. A greeting cowboys said to people