What a Cowboy Really Ate on the Trail | History for Sleep

What did cowboys really eat on the long cattle drives from Texas to Kansas? History for Sleep — a calm bedtime story of the chuck wagon, the trail cook and the food of the Old West (1866-1886). Pull up a blanket and ride along with a herd of two thousand longhorns. You'll see Charles Goodnight build the first chuck wagon in 1866, meet the cook who ruled the camp, wake before dawn for sourdough biscuits and Arbuckles' coffee, and find out whether it really was just beans. Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:16 The Long Road North 9:43 Goodnight's Wagon 18:08 The Man at the Wagon 26:03 Before the Sun 34:00 Not Only Beans 42:08 Supper and Stars 50:00 Music for sleep Sources National Park Service, Grant-Kohrs Ranch: "Trail Drives" Kansas Historical Society: "Cowboys" and "The Chisholm Trail" Texas Monthly, "Out of the Box" (Goodnight's chuck box, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum) Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy (1903) E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott, We Pointed Them North (1939) Ramon F. Adams, Come an' Get It (1952) Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Points West Library of Congress, Erwin E. Smith photographs Images: AI-generated illustrations and public-domain photographs (Library of Congress). Narration voice is AI-generated. #HistoryForSleep #WildWest #BedtimeStory