Across
- 1. Cowboys often wore a _ over their face to keep dust out of their mouth
- 5. Cattle farmers sometimes went on _ over a 1000 miles
- 6. Buffalo almost became_ because they were hunted so heavily
- 12. Lincoln Who was the Homestead Act signed by
- 14. This railroad was just complete and made travel easy
- 15. Animal that was commonly hunted in the west
- 18. People travel out west to start
- 20. The West was often referred to as the _ west
Down
- 2. Americans The number of new settlers affected the_
- 3. The cattle markets were _
- 4. Had a problem getting to the market
- 7. _ settlers came because they heard there was equality
- 8. farmers till the ground to plant this
- 9. First name of the woman who wrote Little House on the prairie
- 10. You had to be this age to be the head of a household
- 11. Country that invented cattle raising
- 13. Famers who drove cattle were called this
- 16. is One of a cowboy's biggest fears
- 17. A cowboy's workday was this many hours
- 19. Cowboys often carried this on their hip