People
The trader that the most popular cattle trail was named after.
Jesse Chisholm
The Nez Perce leader who traveled to Washington, DC and spoke to President Hayes about his people.
Chief Joseph
The person in charge of a cattle drive.
Trail Boss
Open land in the West that had not been settled.
Frontier
A town that grew quickly was called a ____.
Boomtown
The colonel who led US forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
George Custer
An area of land set aside by the US government for Native Americans.
Reservation
To make it harder for thieves to steal cattle, symbols called _____ were used.
Brands
Word that means crossing a continent.
transcontinental
Farmers settling in the West found that ____ were a great help.
Inventions
The Sioux chief who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Crazy Horse
The government tried to make Indians live more like white people by passing this Act.
Dawes
Moving a herd of cattle was called a ____.
Cattle drive
When building the transcontinental railroad, workers had to face different ____.
landforms
A prairie farmer who raised corn, wheat, cattle, and hogs was know as a ____.
Sodbuster
One of the missionaries to the West.
Ezra Fisher
Native Americans hunted and used every part of these animals.
Buffalo
A sudden rush of scared animals that run away from the trail.
Stampede
People who raced to claim land in Oklahoma by pushing stakes into the ground and setting up hasty tents were called _____
"Boomers"
A lode is a _____
rich source of precious metal
One of the first marshals of Abilene.
Tom Smith
Native Americans were treated _________ as the white men moved West.
Unjustly
Spanish settlers brought these to America.
Longhorns
"Sooner" slipped across the borders and claimed land before they were allowed during the ____
Oklahoma Land Rush
This act gave Americans 160 acres of land in the West.
Homestead Act