Ranching Crossword Puzzle 3:  Home on the Range
Find these words in the puzzle below.

Across:
2.  This box sits at the rear of the wagon; also means food.
3.  Used as the kitchen sink.
6.  Name used for dried "cow chips" which provided fuel for the cook's fire.
8.  Most historians give him credit for inventing the chuck wagon.
9.  Partner of chuck wagon inventor.
12.  A large tarp which covers the chuck wagon and keeps the sun and rain out.
14.  If drinking was forbidden on the trail, what was that bottle of alcohol in the chuck box used for?
15.  Tough wood used to build the first chuck wagon.
17.  Place where early cowboys might tuck their provisions or belonging.
18.  Common food eaten by cowboys on the trail.
19.  Mixture of sugar, bread, and canned tomatoes.

Down:
1.  Three legged iron pot that sat in a fire with coals on the lid.
4.  What did the cook call canned foods?
5.  Name of saltless, yeastless, dried hard bread eaten when bad weather interfered with building fires.
7.  Popular drink of cowboys.
10.  Name often given to coffee.
11.  Eaten with hardtack; dried beef
13.  Spanish name for cook.
16.  Name of wagon used in addition to a regular wagon to carry bedding and extra equipment.

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