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.

Discusses the everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, and common foods of pioneers who traveled west on the Oregon Trail during the nineteenth century. Includes recipes.

Presents a history of the route which became the "Main Street" of the Texas cattle trade after the Civil War and remained until after its closing in 1884

Adventures of frontiersmen bound for Red River settlements in the 1850's.

The many difficulties and occasional rewards of early travel and transportation in Minnesota are highlighted in this book, along with the state's relations with what became western Canada and insights into the development of business in Minnesota. The meeting of Indian and European cultures is vividly manifested by the mixed-blood Mtis who became the mainstay of the Red River trade.

More than one thousand entries and more than one hundred photographs present an entertaining history of the often quirky origins of St. Paul place names, from A Street to Zimmermann Place and including parks, lakes, streams, roads, cemeteries, bridges, neighborhoods, and many other landmarks. Original.