Buffalo and squirrel were two of the meats that were part of the staple diet, certainly of the early settlers. Provisions they pick up at the point of origin (these were non-perishables like, coffee, nuts, sugar and flour).The types of food that the pioneering folk ate were dependent on two things: How they used skills like hunting, like growing and gathering vegetables and the techniques they used to preserve food during often very hard winters. In this article, we’ll look at how the frontiers folk coped with food scarcity. Roads, over which oxen could draw covered wagons, had yet to be cleared. Some even trundled their few household goods in wheelbarrows along the forest traits. The frontiers people who came to the western states looking for a new life, had to be hardy folk, who had the skills to take care of themselves with little resources and scarce food availability. Many of the early arrivals came on foot, with pack horses or driving heavy-laden cows. One of harsh conditions, lack of food and battles over land, like the Indian Wars. The real Wild West was a very different place indeed. I grew up watching those films and I still can’t picture a cowboy without thinking of him walking cross the badlands spitting tobacco onto the sand.īut of course the Wild West of the films wasn’t quite the same as the real Wild West. They’d sit out under the stars, eating beans from a can and chewing tobacco. When we think of the Wild West we often think of the old films with John Wayne or Clint Eastwood.
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