Mormons Ate Best

Of all the pioneers who settled Arizona Territory—Indians, Mexicans, the military, miners, cowboys—the Mormons ate best. As Daphne Overstreet reports in her “Arizona Territorial Cook Book, 1864 to 1912,” “While many of Arizona's other pioneers were subsisting on salt pork and beans, the Mormons were eating cheese and milk from their dairy herds, eggs from their laying hens, and produce from their gardens and orchards.” Mormons arrived in Arizona Territory in wagon trains sent out