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Women of the West

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A few of the words

ANNIE
Annie Oakley could split a playing card edge-on at 90 feet. She joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1885 and became one of the most celebrated performers in the world.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CALAMITY
Martha Jane Canary earned the name Calamity Jane for her fearless scouting and nursing during campaigns on the northern plains in the 1870s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SACAGAWEA
Sacagawea, a Lemhi Shoshone woman, guided the Lewis and Clark Expedition westward beginning in 1804, serving as interpreter and indispensable pathfinder.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HOMESTEAD
The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed single women to file claims in their own name, thousands did, breaking sod and building lives on the open plains.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Women of the West word search, free to print on a clean sheet. Annie Oakley's in there, and so are the women who actually built the frontier.

About Women of the West

The American West demanded everything from the women who ventured into it, steady hands, unshakable nerve, and a willingness to make a home out of raw, windswept earth. Pioneer women drove wagons along rutted trails, homesteaded on the open prairie, and kept families fed and sheltered through brutal winters and blazing summers. A handful became legends: sharpshooters whose aim drew crowds, scouts who guided expeditions across unmapped ranges, and cowgirls who rode hard and answered to no one.

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