Settlement - where many people set up camp and lived in one spot, Boomtown - a town where the population grows quickly, or booms, Gold rush - a great migration of people to the west in search of gold, Prospectors - people who headed west to search for gold, Miners - people who dig into the earth to look for gold, Reservations - areas of land set aside for the First Nations to live, Ghost towns - abandoned towns, Grubstake - a supply of equipment, food, or money that was loaned to the prospector in return for some of the profits of his gold, Iron pyrite - looked like gold but was not valuable, Pay dirt - for a miner - dirt that had the glitter of gold in it, Gold pan - a shallow and wide metal dish used for panning gold, Rocker box - a wooden rectangular box on rockers used by gold miners, Sluice box - water is flushed down a long box to wash the gravel which is shoveled into it, Stake - a wooden peg driven into the ground to mark the boundaries of a claim, Riffles - wooden cross-pieces in a rocker box or sluice that trapped gold, Vigilantes - men who tried to uphold the law by punishing crimes themselves without the help of the police or the courts,

Gold Rush Hangman

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