The wild west

1. Settlers that came from the deep south?
7. By the 1880s, most American Indians had been confined to?
8. The stereotype of the heroic white cowboy is far from true(true or false)?
9. What industry rose in importance as the railroad provided a practical means for getting them to the market?
13. Who turned away from the traditional view of the West as a frontier?
14. Opened up vast areas of the region to settle?
16. Cowboy often described as blank and glamourous?
17. What other animal was important to the Wild West?
19. What ethnicity of cowboys also rode the range?
20. What animal drastically affected the lives of the Native Americans living in the West?

2. The impact of the real cowboy has not shaped our views.
3. Who seemed doomed defeated by the greater numbers of settlers?
4. Settlers that came across the Mississippi River to mine, farm, and ranch?
5. Where had Indians been confided to that was less desirable to white settlers?
6. Who plowed the natural grasses for crops?
10. Were horses the only means of transportation?
11. Who had introduced cattle to Mexico centuries earlier?
12. What the first cowboys were seen as what?
15. What from the East changed the Great Plains?
18. Symbol for The Wild West of the 19th century?