Download or read book Cooking on the Oxcart Trails written by Jan Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Abercrombe, 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.