Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion

by Reginald Horsman

Feast or Famine is the first comprehensive account of food and drink in the winning of the West, describing the sustenance of successive generations of western pioneers. Drawing on journals of settlers and travelers--as well as a lifetime of research on the American West--Reginald Horsman examines more than one hundred years of history, from the first advance of explorers into the Mississippi valley to the movement of ranchers and farmers onto the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826217893
• ISBN13: 9780826217899
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5