Across
- 3. Famous businessmen who created the first- mail order catalog company
- 7. a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the Transcontinental Railroad.
- 11. a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains where timber was scarce.
- 12. Former slave turned Cowboy. Famous for his skills of roping, and cattle herding.
- 13. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads.
- 14. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
Down
- 1. young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north.
- 2. is a railroad that crosses an entire continent.
- 4. used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion.
- 5. a type of steel fencing with sharp points at various intervals. Invented by Joseph Gliden
- 6. Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that made available 160 acres of free farmland
- 7. the place in northwestern Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met
- 8. person who claimed land on the Great Plains
- 9. The name given to the Transcontinental Railroad by Native Americans.
- 10. was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.