The Chuck Wagon: The Real Queen Of The Old West Cattle Trail

[@ricklee5845]

Thank you for a well researched, well presented video! The TV series Rawhide 1959-1965, gives us some illustration in the form of the determined Mr. Wishbone. It's great fun 🤠

[@billschram2954]

I would like to see a lot more cooking at the chuck wagon and seen how the food was stored see how they prepared the food to cook .

[@907GIRL-t1v]

Wow! I would love to attend one of those events. Awesome thanks ❤🎉

[@anthonyj7989]

Cattle drives are not just an American thing, it also happened in Australia and it was a common practice up until the 1970s (road trains became more common to move livestock in Australia). You are right to say that the cook is the one who keeps the cattle drives going. In Australia we still have very large cattle ranches (stations) and sheep stations along with large shearing sheds and it is always the cook who is the one who keeps everyone happy with a good meal three times a day (four times a day with shearers). If you have ever been on a cattle or sheep station, you do get a bit sick of beef or mutton three times a day and it is always appreciated when a cook goes that extra mile to make the meals a bit different, now and again.

[@gregmacdonald7710]

Brilliant... thank you from an appreciative Aussie! ... happy safe Festive Season 🙏🎁

[@sundog70]

Loved this one.

[@mikewhite2aadvocacy172]

Time to get me some Grub

[@davidbrazee6336]

Very similar to the "Teardrop" camper kitchens.

[@roadwarrior4209]

Living off grid for 6 years and use a dutch oven for all my baking and roasting

[@les3449]

I saw only one, maybe two bowlers on men's heads at 18:26. They appeared to be northern cowboys by their different clothing and camp setup from the previous photos of Texas and Oklahoma cowboys. I wish the creators of the "cowboys wore bowlers" videos would watch this one.

[@Frook52]

Hmmmm beans anyone?

[@Pistolmike59]

Does anyone have pointers to original recipes used by the cooks on chuckwagons? I’d sure like to review those.

[@les3449]

get the books "Chuck Wagon Cookin' " by Stella Hughes and "World Championship Dutch Oven Cookbook" by Juanita and Mike Kohler, Pat and Dick Michaud.

[@Pistolmike59]

@@les3449 Thank you

[@les3449]

@@Pistolmike59 You're welcome!

[@liviosinibaldi3632]

The glory of free frontier life, once in some ways portraited by those chuck wagons, has turned into modern junk fast food.

[@sheribrummett1960]

Were there ever any female Chuckwagon Cooks I've always heard the story that my grandma was from Midland Texas and she works on a Chuck Wagon wagon

[@les3449]

I don't know about female cooks on cattle drives in the 19th century BUT I wanted to mention my grandfather Eaker worked on ranches around Menard and Mason Texas in the 1930s and 40s. My grandmother, mother and aunts and an uncle were on these ranches as well. I think my grandmother did some cooking for the cowboys.

[@sheribrummett1960]

@les3449 Thank you

[@les3449]

@@sheribrummett1960 You're welcome!

[@cliffbungalow9373]

You ain't gonna get any nouveau, amandine, thin crust, bottled water, sauteed city food. Food's brown, hot, and plenty of it.

[@roadwarrior4209]

Water 💧

[@bobobo2224]

Seriously? Chuck is a slang term for food, yet the name "chuck wagon" s origin is in question? Really????

[@jimellis2118]

Copy and paste dialogue sucks.

[@les3449]

I think you mean monologue and it's not that bad.