Feast or famine : food and drink in American westward expansion

Publication Data

• Title Feast or famine : food and drink in American westward expansion
• Author Reginald Horsman
• Publisher University of Missouri Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Columbia, Mo.
• Language English

Contents

Food in the forest
Land of pork and corn
Game on every side
Meat and more meat
Tortillas and frijoles
On the Oregon Trail
Water before every door
By land and sea
Food at the mines
Rank and file
Officers' wives
Food on the run
Ranch and chuck wagon
Long horizons.

Topics

• Drinking customs :: West (U.S.) :: History :: 19th century
• Food habits :: West (U.S.) :: History :: 19th century
• Frontier and pioneer life :: West (U.S.)
• Cooking, American :: Western style :: History
• Overland journeys to the Pacific
• West (U.S.) :: Social life and customs :: 19th century
• West (U.S.) :: Discovery and exploration
• United States :: Territorial expansion
• West (U.S.)
• United States

Feast or famine : food and drink in American westward expansion by Reginald Horsman. ISBN 9780826217899. Published by University of Missouri Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.