“This is Thanksgiving, which is celebrated by us by partaking of a dinner of wild ducks roasted, stewed quails, mince pie and a very fine watermelon...

“This is Thanksgiving, which is celebrated by us by partaking of a dinner of wild ducks roasted, stewed quails, mince pie and a very fine watermelon...
“We had gone into Hangtown one night for provisions, when we heard that a great strike had been made at a place called Coon Hollow, about a mile...
“At Healdsburg, the first county fair, we received a silver butter knife for the best butter,” recalled Mrs. Eliza Gregson, who had arrived in...
"It is the easiest thing in the world to make a living here if a man is industrious; but I am more and more hopeless of our ever making enough money...
“My wife has been in the habit for several years of putting up tomatoes for winter use…. She says they must be stewed a long time..,” penned a...
“It was pretty tough in those times,” Mrs. Bell Mattison recalled about her years in Fillmore County, Nebraska, after she moved there with her...
The Fourth of July celebrations were the great events in our lives,” recalled Mrs. Ford, who lived in Canyon City, Oregon, after the 1862 gold...
“One of the most prevalent superstitions was regarding the burial of partially decayed materials under steps of the house of the person to whom one...
“Another Robbery, This One On the Yukon, Netted $7,000,” read the August 31, 1898, headline in The Helena Independent. These clever thieves had used...
“While travelling along the Snake River, father secured a fine, large salmon from an Indian, and we looked forward to a good feast at supper time....
“There is never any sick among the travelers along the Santa Fe line on the eating houses. These are all owned and managed by Mr. Fred Harvey....”...
“Our journey on will be still more difficult, on account of food. In a few days from this place, buffalo cease entirely, and no game is to be found...