Looking Back: Taste of the West

Mention cowboy fare, and most of us think of beans, beans and more beans. Most of the assumptions (by some of us who know nothing about the cowboy way of life) about the old days and the “mess” dished up by “Cookie” (the name given some of the chuckwagon cooks) assume the isolation of range camps would ensure the lack of variety in the menu. Many a story told by old-timers reinforces this image, but…