POTD: Camp Cookie
Camp Cookie
Grant-Kohrs Ranch, Montana
2024
A chuck wagon demonstration complete with a camp cookie brewing coffee over an open fire they way they did back in the day. He certainly looked the part and was very knowledgeable about the job of being a camp cookie. I imagined him to be an old Montana cowboy who may have never gone on a drive with a chuck wagon but who would likely certainly know folks who did. Alas, on query he turned out to be a retired businessman from Alabama who was there on a volunteer gig with the National Park Service for the summer.
Here’s a song about the life of the cowboy as well as a mention of the camp cookie: