Across
- 3. Famous businessmen who during the expansion out west founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company
- 10. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd or drive cattle from the ranches in texas north on trails leading to the railroads
- 11. What native americans called the transcontinental Railroad
- 12. a railroad that crosses an entire continent
- 13. A person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement
- 14. used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion
Down
- 1. a type of steel fencing with sharp points at various intervals
- 2. The place in northwestern Utah where the union pacific and central Pacific railroads met on May 10th 1869
- 4. young men mainly from texas paid to herd and drive cattle north
- 5. A law passed by goverment loans to build the transcontinental railroad
- 6. Enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that made available 160 acres of free farmland
- 7. Former Slave turned cowboy famous for his skills of roping and cattle herding
- 8. A person who claimed land on the Great Plains under The Homestead Act of 1862
- 9. Nickname given to the first African American Cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army
- 10. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio Texas to Abilene Kansas
- 13. A house built of strips of sod