Tasting History with Max Miller shares what Oregon trail travelers ate.

First, at around 4am, they’d start fires to get breakfast going: bacon, johny cakes, and coffee. They often would milk the cows that they brought along, put the milk in a pale under the wagon, and the jostling would churn it into butter.

They had all kinds of other foods for their meals, including camas root and other items they found along the way.