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Come an Get It was the most familiar and welcome call on the range era of the great trail drives following the Civil War. In this entertaining volume, Ramon F. Adams, author of the popular Western Words, tell the story of the old cowboy cooks, and the result is another highly original contribution to the folklore of the cattle country.Although the cowboy cleared the Southwestern frontier of savage Indians and opened the land for settlement, the cook and his commissary contributed greatly to the success of the operation; for as an army depends upon its mess-kitchens, so the cowboys depended upon the chuck wagon. Without it, there would have been to trail drives to rescue Texas from bankruptcy following the Civil War, no roundups to speed the development of the cattle industry, and no beef for the heavily populated areas of the United States.The author records the place and influence of the range cook upon Western life. He discusses the functions of coosie, the food he served, and his methods of preparing it-giving recipes for sourdough biscuits, fluff-duffs, son-of-a-bitch stew, and other distinctive dishes of the range. He describes, too, the wagon, its evolution, and its place in the hearts of the men who called it home.Although there remain a few chuck wagons on the larger ranches today, they have become so scarce that one is rarely seen except in a museum or a rodeo parade, and the younger generation of cooks, like the cowboys themselves has been tamed.Every cook was a character, perhaps with reason, for no man ever worked under greater difficulties or with fewer conveniences. Anecdotes and incidents which illuminate the idiosyncrasies of these Sultans of the Skillets are recounted with gusto.Nick Eggenhofers drawings help Mr. Adams bring the cook and his accoutrement vividly to life.

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title Come An Get It The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook author - photo 1

title:Come An' Get It; : The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook
author:Adams, Ramon F.; Eggenhofer, Nicholas
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806110139
print isbn13:9780806110134
ebook isbn13:9780806171654
language:English
subjectCowboys, Cookery--West (U.S.) , Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
publication date:1952
lcc:F596.A3 1952eb
ddc:917.8
subject:Cowboys, Cookery--West (U.S.) , Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
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Come an Get It The Story of the old Cowboy Cook By Ramon F Adams With - photo 2
Come an' Get It
The Story of the old Cowboy Cook
By Ramon F. Adams
With drawings by Nick Eggenhofer
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
NORMAN AND LONDON
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BOOKS BY RAMON F. ADAMS
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Burs Under the Saddle: A Second Look at Books and Histories of the West (Norman, 1964)
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Come an' Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook (Norman, 1952)
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A Fitting Death for Billy the Kid (Norman, 1960)
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(editor) From the Pecos to the Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography (Norman, 1965)
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The Rampaging Herd: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphletson Men and Events in the Cattle Industry (Norman, 1959)
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Six Guns and Saddle Leather: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen (Norman, 1954, 1969)
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Western Words: A Dictionary of the Range, Cow Camp, andTrail (Norman, 1944)
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Western Words: A Dictionary of the American West (Norman, 1968 )
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(compiler and editor)The Best of the American Cowboy (Norman, 1957)
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(editor) The Manual of Brands and Marks (Norman, 1970)
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The Language of the Railroader (Norman, 1977)
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More Burs Under the Saddle: Books and Histories of the West (Norman, 1979)
LC: 52-12299
ISBN: 0-8061-1013-9
Copyright 1952 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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Dedicated to Elman and Margaret
and to the memory of all the old hard-boiled
but ever faithful cooks of the cow range
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FOREWORD
"Come an' get it!" This familiar and welcome call of the old range and trail is dimming with the years. The man who issued the summonsthe old range cookhas been too long overlooked by writers of Western fact and fiction. Scattered and meager mention of him has been made, but as yet there has been no complete record of his life, his character, or his importance in the development of the West, except in the memories of the men who came under his direct influence.
To enlighten the younger generation and to keep his memory alive, I would like to place between permanent covers the story of this unusual character, his functions, the food he served, and his manner of preparing it. No less interesting is the wagon he commanded, its evolution, and the influence it exercised in the growth of the West's great cattle industry, as well as its place in the hearts of the men who called it home. Although there are still a few chuck wagons in operation upon the larger ranches today, they
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have become so scarce that one is rarely seen except in a museum or in a rodeo parade.
You will note that this little book is written in the past tense. There is a reason for that. I am trying to tell you of the old-time cook and his wagon during the days he was in his glory. His kind have since followed the buffalo and the dodo bird. And though to write about him now is but an epitaph to his memory, I do not want his passing to go unnoticed and unhonored.
It is fitting, no matter how incomplete and inadequate the effort, that a recording should be made of his place and influence upon our Western civilization. Without him there would likely have been no cattle industrycertainly not the big business into which it developed.
It was the cowboy who cleared the frontier of the savage Indian and opened the land for the farmer who later came with his plow to create the Dust Bowl. But without the cook and his commissary the cowboy's work would have been limited. There would have been no trail drives to rescue Texas from bankruptcy and spread the cattle business to the states and territories to the north and west; there would have been no roundups so necessary to the development of the growing industry.
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