Across
- 5. crop production without irrigation during a dry season
- 6. several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain
- 7. a form of mining that uses high-pressure jets of water
- 10. a contract that requires regular payments for more than one full year to the person entitled to receive the payments
- 11. a Canadian miner after whom the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, was named
- 12. a farmer or farm worker who plows the land
- 13. a house, especially a farmhouse, and outbuildings
- 15. take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully
Down
- 1. a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War[1] and the American Indian Wars
- 2. a town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity
- 3. very large farms established in the western United States
- 4. a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States
- 8. a high plateau of grasslands that is located in parts of the United States and Canada in North America
- 9. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock
- 14. the part of the North American Great Plains where wheat is the dominant crop