Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 3. A Wild or half-tamed horse.
  2. 4. Moving Cattle from one place to another.
  3. 5. Explorers who charted and mapped the West
  4. 10. Person who tends the cattle on a ranch.
  5. 11. A wagon trail that went far West
  6. 13. Sudden panicked rush of cattle or bison.
  7. 14. System for sending messages along a wire.
  8. 15. Belief that expansion west was inevitable
  9. 16. Mail service on horseback.
Down
  1. 1. Deserted town with few to no inhabitants.
  2. 2. Land set aside for Native Americans.
  3. 6. Handkerchief worn by cowboys around the neck.
  4. 7. First people to explore and settle the West.
  5. 8. Movement to California after gold was found.
  6. 9. Rapidly growing town.
  7. 12. Small house made from tree trunks.