Across
- 4. plowed the soil on the plains
- 7. to plant seeds deep in the ground
- 8. yielded big profits
- 9. stray calves with no identifying markings
- 10. volunteers to track down and punish wrongdoers
- 12. a prospector who staked a claim in Nevada
- 14. took place along Sand Creek in eastern Colorado
- 21. hundred of square miles to be fenced off cheaply
- 23. using simple equipment like picks, shovels, and pans
- 24. a ritual celebration hoping for day of reckoning
Down
- 1. dug deep beneath the surface
- 2. passed in 1862, supported settlement
- 3. tract of public land available for settlement
- 5. 260,000 mile cattle drive to Missouri
- 6. proposed creating two large reservations on the plains
- 11. a vast area of grassland owned by the government
- 13. commander of the Seventh Calvary
- 14. explored the region with an army expedition in 1819
- 15. roamed vast distances
- 16. asked traders to provide his people food on credit
- 17. families who become self supporting
- 18. a long drive from Texas to Abilene, Kansas
- 19. payments to reservation dwellers
- 20. passed in 1887 gave head of household 160 acres
- 22. extends westward from Rocky Mountains