I Gotta Cook Where?

“Chris lifted the food box down from the front of our wagon, while Carrie built a fire in the Russian iron camp stove. “Mother peeled potatoes and parsnips. Soon they were steaming in iron pots on the stove, along with some wild crab apples brought from home, and were simmering in the brass kettle. Mother made biscuits, which she baked in the oven of their wonderful new stove, and fried bacon, and prepared gravy,” wrote Catherine, as she traveled with her family through Idaho in 1864 on