Clues Across:
3.
When the people's resources were limited, the school buildings they built were ____.
5. The first "public" school in Idaho opened in the mining town of ____ during the winter of 1864-1865.
8. The only public high school in Idaho Territory was built in ____ in 1882.
10. The pioneers built whatever kind of school they could ____.
11. One-room and two-room schools were used in Idaho until ___ times.
12. The first immigrant school was established in the town of ____ in 1860.
Clues Down:
1. Most of Idaho's ____ schools were closed in 1947, and their students were bused to schools in town.
2. Early school buses were wagons pulled by ____.
4. ____ was proud of its three-story six-room school that was built in the 1880s.
6. The school in Florence closed at the end of its first year, because nearly all the the people left after the ____ ran out.
7. The wind blew right through the school at Dixie because the building had no ____ or doors.
9. Because the students had no notebooks or paper, they did their lessons on ____.
13. In the Florence school, the table and benches were made out of ____ split in half lengthwise.

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