Review of \u3ci\u3eWagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail\u3c/i\u3e By Jacqueline Williams

Williams uses original texts liberally-diaries, letters, contemporary published accounts, cookbooks-and a method I appreciate: voices from the past, rather than a modern voice telling us what voices from the past said. The book\u27s illustrations and photos significantly add to the reader\u27s understanding and appreciation of the severe demands of cookery on the Trail