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Hell on Wheels Meals

by | Jul 13, 2018 | Departments, Frontier Fare

Even bad guys had to eat. These gentlemen stand in front of one of Bear River City, Wyoming Territory’s numerous restaurants in 1868, the year that the Union Pacific Railroad decided to pass by the town and head to modern-day Evanston instead. The railroad had zero desire to place even a switch where the worst elements of the Hell on Wheels towns seemed to gather. — Courtesy Collection of the Oakland Museum of California, H69.4


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