Across
- 5. was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
- 10. a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land
- 11. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads.
- 15. a house built of strips of sod
- 17. Omaha Nebraska
- 18. name they called the train
Down
- 1. a railroad that crosses an entire continent.
- 2. Sacramento California
- 3. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
- 4. person who claimed land on the Great Plains under The Homestead Act
- 6. Nickname given to the first African American Cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army who served in the western U.S. during 1867-1896
- 7. ended the cowboy era
- 8. young men from the west
- 9. Famous businessmen who during the expansion out west founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company
- 12. available 160 acres of free farmland
- 13. used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion.
- 14. Point where the two railroads met
- 16. Former slave turned Cowboy.