Cowboy Lifestyle: What Did Cowboys Eat?

Chip Schweiger
7 min readJul 14, 2019

If you’ve ever wondered what cowboys would eat on the open range, you’ve come to the right place. Unlike the variety of foods prepared for both cowboys and non-cowboys to eat today, what cowboys were known to eat in the 1800s and early 1900s were generally categorized into three groups. I call them the staples, the extras and the treats.

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Chip Schweiger

I’m the CPA who writes about the American West, and the cowboys who feed a nation.