Don't Fence Me In
Description
Cowboys on the trail lived on such a steady diet of beans, sowbelly, biscuits, Arbuckle coffee, and dried apples that they told jokes and sang ditties like this one. Camp cooks did their best to vary three meals a day for the three-month trip up the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Kansas. For dessert there was pie made with “doctored up” dried apples.
Recommended Citation
Marshall, Jane P. (2017). "Dried Apple Pie on the Chisholm Trail," Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal. https://newprairiepress.org/sfh/2017/fence/7
Dried Apple Pie on the Chisholm Trail
Cowboys on the trail lived on such a steady diet of beans, sowbelly, biscuits, Arbuckle coffee, and dried apples that they told jokes and sang ditties like this one. Camp cooks did their best to vary three meals a day for the three-month trip up the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Kansas. For dessert there was pie made with “doctored up” dried apples.
