What name did the first explorers of the Great Plains give the area?

Which of the following were not hardships that early settlers on the Great Plains faced?

Deep deposits of lead that contained large amounts of silver led to the creation of one of the most legendary boomtowns that dotted the mining frontier,

What brought the first wave of settlers to the West?

Although only a fraction of the herds survived when ranchers rounded up their cattle in 1866 and drove them to Sedalia, Missouri, it was the first

Eventually, and after considerable loss of life, the open range was largely fenced off with a new invention called

Settlement in the Great Plains was promoted by the railroads and supported by

The Great Plains extends westward to the Rocky Mountains from around the 100th meridian-a line running north and south from the central Dakotas through

By the 1860s, farmers on the Plains were adopting newly designed steel plows, seed drills, reapers, and

In 1859 when prospector Henry Comstock staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada, the sticky blue-gray mud there turned out to be

A tract of public land available for settlement

Planting seeds deep in the ground where there was enough moisture for them to grow

Often brought their owners big profits

Productive farm area that began at the eastern edge of the Great Plains

Explored the Great Plains in 1819

The major route north to Abilene, Kansas

Process of extracting shallow deposits of ore largely by hand

Self-appointed volunteers to track down and punish wrongdoers

Vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government

Mining that dug deep beneath the surface