Growth in the West Crossword

Taking cattle by foot to a railway.
Formed in 1867, the Patrons of Husbandry tried to meet the social needs of farm families.
A farmer on the frontier
Also known as the peoples party and formed in the 1890 this group wanted a policy that would raise crop prices.
Passed in 1862, this law offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for five years.
A policy under which the government backs every dollar with certain amount of gold.
An organization owned and run by its members.
Land to settle on and farm.
Unsettled or sparsely settled area occupied largely by Native Americans.
Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes.
A law, enacted in 1876, that distributed reservation land to individual owners.
An 1876 battle in which the Sioux and the Cheyenne wiped out an entire force of the United States troops.
A person of Spanish descent whose ancestors had come from Mexico and settled in the southwest.
The area from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains.
People who took the law into their own hands.
One of the Sioux chiefs, that helped push back their intruders.
A buffalo hunter turned showman, brought the west to the rest of the through his Wild West show.
A name given by Native Americans to African Americans serving in the U.S. army in the West.
An African American who left the South for the West and compared himself or herself to Biblical Hebrews who left slavery in Egypt.
A cowhand that came from Mexico with the Spaniards in the 1500's.