Across
- 2. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
- 3. crop a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
- 6. Commission state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry
- 7. the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness, especially referring to the western US
- 10. wire wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction.
- 11. trail a trail over which cattle were driven to market.
- 13. range a large area of grazing land without fences or other barriers.
- 14. something, typically money, that is owed or due.
Down
- 1. a large farm, especially in the western US and Canada, where cattle or other animals are bred and raised.
- 4. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
- 5. giving a part of each crop as rent.
- 8. wars control of "open range", or range land freely used for cattle grazing, which gave the conflict its name.
- 9. farming a person who farms rented land.
- 12. a man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattle.