Across
- 3. young men mainly from texas paid to herd (and drive) cattle north
- 4. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd (or drive) cattle
- 6. Famous businessman who during the expansion our west founded the R.W sears watch company
- 8. a type of steel fencing with sharp points at various intervals
- 9. a railroad that crosses an entire continent
- 12. nickname given to the first African American Cavalry regiments of the U.S Army who served in western U.S during
- 13. person h=who claimed land on the great plains under the homestead act
- 15. what the Native Americans called the TCR
Down
- 1. used on the very last rail of the trains continental railroad marking its completion
- 2. in 1862 Abraham Lincoln made 160 acres of free farmland available for men and widows over the age of 21
- 5. law passed by congress offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the transcontinental railroad
- 7. a house built of strips of sod
- 10. former slave turned cowboy
- 11. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from
- 14. a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement