Imagine having to vie for limited food and not being sure if you're going to be able to eat whatever you wanted for the months ahead. Cowboys weren't always certain of what they were going to eat and before the railroad trading was difficult. These survivalists had to learn ways to get food, which included looking for fresh vegetables and understanding important preservation techniques.
Today we do much the same, but considering most of us have a grocery store around the corner, we're more reliant on businesses and supermarkets for our meals. The cowboys remind us that as preppers we should become less reliant on others and more self-sufficient like they were.
A Lucky Bag
Food during the earlier days of the Wild West, before the railroads opened up trade, could be monotonous. Vegetables, like beans, were often out of a can, the meat variety was limited, squirrel being an alternative to the usual buffalo.
Provisions such as coffee, sugar and flour were scarce and stocked up on, when the opportunity arose.
These were the days before home freezing or even cool boxes. The cowboy and girl would need to use preservation techniques, like salting, pickling or dehydration to keep food over the winter.
Dugouts were also used to store food in. Early cowboys really had to make use of their hunter-gatherer instincts.
For fresh vegetables they would have to forage for fresh berries, wild fruit and other green edibles and roots. Herbs and acorns were also foraged for and used to liven up meals. Some folk would create a smoke house that would be used communally, the people taking advantage of it, leaving some meat or fish for the smoke house owner as payment for use.
If the cowboy had time, they could go hunting, perhaps bagging a deer or antelope. They could then add some extra pizazz to their meals and keep the rest of the meat using one of the preserving techniques.
It's true that cowboys had to use what they had to stay alive, including using this valuable animal for so many purposes that they almost became extinct because of it.
After the break, discover the real reasons why this animal was so valuable to the settler's survival at the time and what survivalists today can take away from that.
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That just tels us how good we have it i didnt see any tips
7. Don’t wear leather pants
Unless it’s Friday…….
Or your a hot chic
And it started in Florida not the west, but they forgot to mention that’s as usual.
There is so much wrong with that article it’s not even funny
Carry a gun number 1 !
You have said Nothing about firearms before 1873. One of my ancestors had a Muzzleloading rifle and pistol and knife.
Rick Joy
Lol forget native Americans right lol stfu
Hokey page
If you think you’re in danger, Put a slug in a stranger, Before he puts one into YOU…”It’s the Code of The West!”
This author is weak, at best. Trying to get his name out there? Couldn’t get past his first pg. what an idiot
Didn’t read, do they tell you to wear your holster correctly?
Anytime the page loads slow I pretty much know it is a next page read, which defeats the purpose, so I bailout my time wasted looking.
I now feel dumber after reading this
It’s silly story.
Cross draw is bullshit. If you’re going to carry on your hip, don’t cross draw, it decreases your draw speed…
Interesting read.
The fur trappers did it seventy years earlier with single shot rifles and a knife. We can learn more survival skills from them.
Today thier call homeless!
This story was about cowboys. They roamed town to town. Or cattle drives.
I read the article. 🙂
When the SHTF, I’m not going town to town….
Article mistakes early settlers of the west with cowboys.
Nope not a single word about it.
Rhonda Leggett
Chuck Leggett
HAHAHA an entertaining read any how.
Cross draw has it place it obvious you never sat at a desk or drove a car where you might need to reach a firearm if you think its useless.
“After this break”…should say, “let’s break up this story as many times as we can to get more ad revenue”. Sorry, lost me on the second page.
IT WAS THE GUN THAT SETTLED THE WEST..NOTHING ELSE WOULD OF DONE IT..
Amie Butterfield. Alice Renae Burrough. Dad? Or what
What a writer. Takes forever to get to the point with all the b.s. in between it. In fact, I quit on page 5. Who knows how long the article really is. It’s a friggin encyclopedia.