What were the standard supplies on a chuckwagon? Hugh Howard True West Maniac #9 Lawrenceville, Georgia The chuckwagon had sparse provisions. “Cookie” packed flour, cornmeal, green coffee beans (until Arbuckle’s came on the market), ubiquitous pinto beans, baking powder, salt, sugar, sourdough starter, salt pork and canned goods such as peaches. There was also beef on the hoof. Along the way, the resourceful cocinero gathered up staples like onions, eggs, fruit, vegetables or items found
April 2009
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- The Adventures of a Wagon Train
- Cowboys in Combat
- Sacajawea (Children’s Book)
- No Need For A Gunfighter (Fiction)
- Arizona War (Fiction)
- Dreams Beneath Your Feet (Fiction)
- Hurd’s Crossing (Fiction)
- Blacks in East Texas History (Nonfiction)
- Rabbit Creek Country (Nonfiction)
- Staking Her Claim (Nonfiction)
- Horse Country (Nonfiction)
- Inkpaduta (Nonfiction)
- Princess Monahsetah, the Concealed Wife of General Custer. (Nonfiction)
- The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (Nonfiction)
- Movie Westerns Back in Print
- Hoppy Re-Upped
More In This Issue
- Nate Funmaker
- San Antonio, Texas
- Cow Camp Style
- Ups & Downs of Ranching Dream
- The Most Famous Rifle of the Old West
- Journey Through Spanish Missions Country
- Preservation: Galvanizing Galveston
- The Sinagua Sunwatchers
- They Ate What?
- Serpents – Lethal Enemies?
- Deadwood Dresses Up Auction
- Batter Up in Tombstone
- Did cowboys accurately shoot revolvers from horseback?
- I’ve been reading Elmer Kelton’s The Day the Cowboys Quit. What does he mean by the word “tawline?”
- Who was better at catching outlaws: the law officers or bounty hunters?
- What can you tell me about Indians who fought in the Civil War?
- What did the wagon trains do for toilet paper during those long trips across the country?
- What were the standard supplies on a chuckwagon?
- I am follicly challenged (ala Telly Savalas). Were there any bald-headed folks of note in the Old West?
- Ketchum Goes Out Alone
- The Road to Mangas
- The Lazy Person’s Guide to Oregon
- Wagon Train Rediscovers America
- Alaska’s Quiet Gold Rush
- Staycations & Vacations