Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Frontier Trails and Pioneers' Trek
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Settler who occupied unowned land without legal title
- 2. Large animal whose decline impacted Native American life
- 3. Document listing cargo and passengers on a ship or train
- 4. Material crucial for building homes and railroads
- 5. Famous trail used for cattle drives to railheads
- 8. Popular frontier gathering spot for drink and news
- 9. Conical tents used by many Plains tribes
- 10. Mass migration triggered by discovery of precious metal
- 11. Name of the mill site that sparked the Gold Rush
- 14. Essential transportation connecting east and west coasts
Down
- 6. Organized journey for exploration and mapping
- 7. Workers who managed cattle herds on the open range
- 12. Defensive enclosure protecting settlers or livestock
- 13. Railroad feature crucial for westward transport
- 15. Early settler venturing into new lands
- 16. Primary vehicle used by settlers moving west
- 17. Gas settlers had less of at high mountain passes