The Bacon Cure

On his way from Illinois to California in 1852, William Henry Hart wrote, “The bacon too that I had  always disliked even the sight of, became very good eating proving that nothing makes us relish our food as much as a good appetite.” Bacon was one of the few meat staples that traveled well, whether it was along the emigrant trail or cattle trail. As Randolph B. Marcy noted in The Prairie Traveler, his 1859 handbook that proved an indispensable guide to Overlanders as they trekked to the