Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail

By Jacqueline B. Williams

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700606092
• ISBN13: 9780700606092
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Happy Trials.

Good read for those interested in how their ancestors ate -- especially if it is known one of them was among those who went west using this paticular route. Highly recommended.