Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food On The Oregon Trail; Author: Williams, Jacqueline; Introduction: Arnold, Sam'L P.; Hardback; Book

Author: Williams, Jacqueline; Introduction: Arnold, Sam'L P.
Hardback; Book; 17 Photographs
244 pages
Published: September 1993
University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700606092

For history buffs and armchair cooks, this book about eating in the Wild West makes absorbing reading. For everybody else, it is another face of the old cowboy, more personal, more vulnerable, less heroic, and excruciatingly human. -- New York Times Book Review. This is that rare western history work that is as entertaining as it is informative. -- Denver Post.Using traveller's diaries, letters, newspaper advertisements and 19th-century cookbooks, Williams recreates the highs and lows of cooking and eating on the Oregon Trail. Recreating all phases of the journey, she shows how supplies were selected in the beginning and used up on the way.