Across
- 4. guys from trains would take out there guns from train windows and shoot herds of buffalo
- 7. was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
- 8. a house built with strips of sod
- 9. the place in northwestern Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, completing the transcontinental railroad.
- 10. a type of steel fencing with sharp points at various intervals. Invented by Joseph Gliden that resulted in closing the western frontier and ending the cattle drives and cowboy era.
- 13. a railroad that crosses an entire continent.
- 15. Famous businessman who during the expansion out west founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company, created the first- mail order catalog company which later become Sears Roebuck and Company
Down
- 1. Nickname was given to the first African American Cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army who served in the western U.S. during 1867-1896, fighting Native American Tribes on the frontier.
- 2. a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the Transcontinental Railroad. (President Lincoln)
- 3. you would get 150 acres if agreed to farm for 5 year
- 5. The name given to the Transcontinental Railroad by Native Americans.
- 6. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
- 11. Former slave turned Cowboy. He was famous for his skills of roping, and cattle herding.
- 12. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads.
- 14. young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north. Approximately ¼-⅓ all cowboys were Hispanic or African Americans (newly freed slaves-remembers it was 1865 ish)