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The Wild West

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A few of the words

NUGGET
The California Gold Rush of 1848 drew more than 300,000 hopeful prospectors to the Sierra Nevada foothills in just a few years.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HOMESTEAD
The Homestead Act of 1862 offered 160 acres of public land to any settler willing to live on it and farm it for five years.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BRONCO
The word 'bronco' comes from the Spanish for 'rough' or 'wild', a fitting name for an unbroken range horse that tested every rider who climbed aboard.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
LASSO
Cowboy roping skills trace back to the vaqueros of Mexico and Spain, whose techniques spread north along the cattle trails long before the frontier era reached its peak.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Wild West word search

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Wild West word search, free and playable right now with no account to make and nothing to download, from gold rush country to open range.

About The Wild West

From the 1840s onward, waves of pioneers packed their lives into covered wagons and rolled westward along trails like the Oregon and the Santa Fe, chasing land, gold, and a fresh start. Cowhands drove vast longhorn herds across the open range, and boomtowns sprang up overnight wherever a prospector's pan flashed yellow. It was a world of canyon winds, campfire smoke, and an horizon that seemed to promise everything, a chapter of American life that still stirs the imagination.

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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