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Across: 1. Law of 1862 allowing free settlement on Great Plains to farm 5. essential for life and almost non-existent on the Plains 8. strong plough to break open the hard soil of the plains 9. Homesteaders earned a living from growing crops, this agricultural way of life is called… 10. dried buffalo dung for fuel to burn

Down: 2. a Russian wheat which was hardy enough to grow on the Plains 3. used to fence off their land by the Homesteaders 4. made from clods and clomps of earth 5. climatic difficulty that faced all Homesteaders across the Plains, lack of rain, tornadoes and extremes of heat and cold. 6. solution to lack of water 7. plagues of these insects ruined crops and lives