The First Food Truck was a Chuck Wagon?
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Chuck wagons were the first ever food trucks in the West!
Join me as I discover a little about Chuck wagons, such as why are they called "Chuck" wagons.
Special thanks to Colonel Paul for this interview!
Hey Trinity! I played music at an old west show and chuckwagon supper south of Amarillo, Tx and not far from Palo Duro Canyon. We had an old chuckwagon down there and when we stopped doing the shows, one of the owners decided to take that old chuckwagon to some of the chuckwagon cookoffs we have around the area. It won 1st place over and over and they always placed in several of the food catagories. They took overall best chuckwagon (wagon and food) several times.
There is a chuckwagon cookoff in Goodnight, Tx. It's called the Charles Goodnight Chuckwagon Cookoff (original, right?) Anyway, they were lots of fun. To tell you what those things are worth, the owner sold it and bought a large catamaran and put it out in Florida. He added a little bit to it but that was the major portion of the purchase. He just got back to Florida from taking that boat up the whole east coast and into Boston Harbor and back! He loves it! He has to come back to Amarillo pretty soon. The WRCA World Finals Championship Ranch Rodeo is in November.
Now, I have to tell ya, I love seeing Col. Paul. We had a man that was one of the main characters in the show we did. His name was "Tumbleweed" Jimmy Northcutt. He passed away a while back. Paul looked just similar enough to him tbat it made my heart smile and when y'all got to talking about the mules, well, I have several videos that I think you can access on my channel and one of them has him talking about mules. He has a team hooked up to a wagon in the video. You should go watch it. If you hear any singing in any of the videos, that's me. Well, there is a couple others that they show in short clips but most of the music is me, my husband and our fiddle player.
I think you might enjoy them. I sure enjoyed this video. It brought lots of memories to mind. ♥️🙂
Thanks, Trinity!
Another great video content, Trinity! Loving Col. Paul Vance's hobby - amazing restoration and history to share. Ok, I did NOT realize the wagons were that narrow!! I guess people were much smaller back then... we've gotten "wider" these days. 🧐🤠 🐎
Well, a cattle drive had to get through some timbered areas and some narrow draws and some brushy areas as well, so I think the narrow build was mainly due to that more than anything else.
Thanks for having such interesting people on the show! Keep it coming!
Great video and content. The Cowboy Museum in Medora North Dakota has an amazing display on the cattle drive, The Great Western Trail, from Canada South to Texas. Amazing, and thanks for the great content.
What a great man Colonel Paul Vance! Very unique man! I love Chuck wagons and the food that they cooked on the trail! I bet this man is a good cook! I follow cowboy Kent Rollins and I’ve bought some of his seasonings and kitchen towels. The story is funny about the beans! Thanks for showing us this man and his wagon. This man has clearly done his history homework! You mentioned the coffee… I buy Kent Rollins coffee and it’s delicious!
another great video. Paul is a good interviewee. He was good at explaining. Loved this video even if it did not have horses and cows.🐴🐎🐮🐮😃
Love this. My parents called their vehicle glove compartment, jockey box. Now I know why. And my mother worked at a restaurant called the chuck wagon.
Great episode 👏
Glad you talked to someone from Kentucky. I loved here him talk about the mules. My dad use to have a big team of mules and he loved to talk about mules.
A great video keep them coming please
Very good video, full of information and little known facts. Life in the Old West required a lot engineering, not only to build something. But to build the tools to build what your building. 🥴 For instance to engineer & build a wagon wheel. Quite an undertaking in itself.
Great presentation by Paul,I had an old cowboy friend who passed back in 2018, but he learn to cowboy on the Matador Ranch in Texas, the ranch was so big that back in 1930 they had cowboys out with cattle, and at that time they ran 3 chuck wagons. He was 13 at the time and attended the horses at night as a (Fart Eagle 😅). He taught me a lot about getting cattle out of the brush, and what to look for when checking on them. RIP Frank Walker 😊
Love it.
Yes! Charles Goodnight started the first chuck wagon. Cool to hear about the history!
I thought it was old Wishbone!
Great video! A lot of great information. I have a friend with an authentic old chuck wagon. Love your videos. You have such a good variety of subjects which are always interesting. Thanks!
That was AWESOME!!! Great video. What a nice guy he is!
Charlie got the idea for his Chuck wagon from civil war ambulance, happy trails.
Another great video interview Trinity. Did they usually put mules horses on a line or hobble, or ...? A fascinating period we missed. Thanks Col Paul and Trinity.
Great video!
It’s interesting to me that the John “chisum trail” was named after a cattle rancher in New Mexico it ran along the pecos river. (That’s the one Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving took, they are portrayed as “Call” and “Gus” in Larry McMurtry book Lonesome Dove.)
The Jesse “chisholm trail”
Started in Texas and went to Kansas.
Jesse had ran trading posts and supplied them, he knew where to safely cross the rivers with his wagons. His original actual trail was in Oklahoma Indian territory and in Kansas.
It’s said that Jesse was “Fluent in thirteen Native American languages and also Spanish, Chisholm served as an interpreter and general aid in several treaties between the Republic of Texas and local Indian tribes, as well as between the United States federal government and various tribes after Texas joined the United States.”
Jesse never drove cattle on his trail.
Ranchers used it because it was a safe places to cross the rivers with their chuck wagons and they stayed within the vicinity of a good water source all the way up the trail.
The Chuck Wagon was definitely the first Food Truck! It had to have been. What an interesting video.
Your hats are almost the same shape. Great video. 😊
came into this knowing more than i thought i would. watching all of Rawhide several times will do that.
thanks to GW Wishbone.
Thank goodness for Charles Goodnight. My wagon is an 1870 Studebaker.
Thanks for sharing Paul wagon. He did a great job restoring it. I didn't know that about mules, maybe that's a reason the Amish use horses?!
Thanks Trinity, suggest you mention Brigching, which allows wheelers to hold back. Additionily, Banff trail ride I was on 20 years ago, saddle horses were pack horses, no banged up knees, as I found on local round ups. Pack horses learned not to bang packs!
mules super smart and excel in rocky areas...
Wonderful video! Your best yet.
Love the video on the chuck wagons back in the day!! Amazing how they got the job done back then...with only 12 - 14 miles a day...must have been hell and frustrating getting any thing done! Trinity - you have to cover the chuck wagons that used to have a "possums belly"?? underneath them chuck wagons which was a tanned and stretched out animal hide that carried animal dung for fuel.."Fires" back in the days when some areas didn't have much in the way of trees for firewood - they'd rely on animal waste to supplement not having firewood. Can you imagine the smell or taste of them beans & coffee back then?? LOL
Nice thanks so much for the education I’m building a model T chuckwagon and picked up some great ideas. Great video.
Great video brother as always keep up the great work and I’m looking forward to the next video
Awesome video. Thank you. Know a lot about Chuck wagons, ...that was right on point.
great interview...
Great video, Trinity.
I love all your videos…but this was one I was really interested in seeing…..Great video!!
Awesome video 😊
Hats to the guys of that ear!
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love me old timer! god bless him!
I bet great tasting food comes out of a chuck wagon.
killer video! love it!
There’s an old historic wagon museum in Cody, Wyoming on the west side it’s worth going to see.
What a great interview and show! I have a question.....some of the chuckwagons I have seen traveled with their big Dutch ovens hanging under the back end, instead of the box. Is that a common thing? Again, thanks for the neat (and enjoyable) history lesson!
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Your chances of getting this thing 12 miles across open ground are about nil much less doing it everyday. Our history is a pack of lies.