Across
- 2. a legislature allowing someone to claim a plot of land after settling and farming it for 5 years
- 5. an abandoned town, usually abandoned for mining reasons
- 8. a Cowboy's worst nightmare
- 10. an allotted piece of land for Native Americans to live on
- 12. a numerous species living out in the west
- 14. people who moved out under the Homestead Act and built their houses out of mud and dirt
Down
- 1. Richard Sear's new invention
- 3. homesteaders built their house out of:
- 4. a person who drives the cattle from the west to the railroads in the east on horseback
- 6. in the US, there are four ______
- 7. called the "iron horse," a revolutionary invention
- 9. a breed of cattle, famous for their horns; the Texas _______
- 11. a popular place in western towns
- 13. people who steal a Cowboy's cattle