"I remember a strawberry festival that featured a huge floating island pudding,” recalled Mrs. Ford, who lived in Canyon City, Oregon, after the 1862 gold strike, where her father ran The Dalles to Canyon City stage line for Wells Fargo. Today, we think of puddings being served at home or in restaurants, but during the Victorian West, they were also served on the trails—both cattle and emigrant. J. Henry Brown’s grandparents and parents got “Oregon fever” and headed west in 1847 fr
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