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During the Great Depression, Did People Eat Tumbleweed Soup?

by | Oct 31, 2016 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

During the Great Depression, did people eat tumbleweed soup? -Brian LaMoure of Helena, Montana Yes. Tumbleweed, or Russian thistle, is edible raw or cooked like greens—but you have to eat it when it’s young and soft. Navajos have been making tumbleweed soup for generations. Marshall Trimble is Arizona’s official historian and vice president of the Wild West History Association. . His latest book is Arizona's Outlaws and Lawmen; History Press, 2015. If you have a question, write:  As


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