by Jan Smith (Author)

Cooking on the Oxcart and Wagon Trails 1858 is a woman's journal, written along the trails which ran for her from Fort Riley Kansas to Fort Abercrombie, on the border of the Minnesota and North Dakota Territories. She details the difficulties of travel for the oxcarts, wagons and people. The journal includes frontier recipes for food and remedies which were prepared over campfires or using camp ovens in rudimentary settings.