FOOD AND COOKING
Along with water, food is obviously a matter of special importance and necessity. Eating well and satisfying your body’s nutritional needs should be placed among your highest priorities.
Food preferences vary enormously, of course, and some people are much more concerned about what they eat than others. It’s not uncommon to have emotional issues arise in relation to food prior to and during a wilderness trip. Beginners often worry or fear that they won’t bring enough and will end up hungry, or that a diet of mostly dehydrated foods will be unpalatable or boring.
The truth is that anyone can eat extremely well in the wilderness. Depending on the kind of diet you prefer, however, it’s probable that you’ll have to make some adjustments.
A few campers are determined to bring their favorite foods at any cost. You occasionally run across people in the wilderness cooking giant steaks or preparing elaborate dinners, complete with wine and candlesenjoyable no doubt, but usually at the expense of having to haul some heavy supplies along.
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In 1817, steamboats replaced keelboats as a more efficient mode of transportation, and, to keep up with the traffic, stone wharves and warehouses had to be built. Phoenix Map Tourist Attractions Politically St. Louis became a hotbed of dissension: the French, whose claims to the region dated to the 1680s, resented the newcomers. Disagreements over land titles and mining claims arose. Hunters and squatters, disregarding treaties with the Native Countrys, moved onto the natives’ lands. In addition, traders resented the increased number of federal regulations being placed on trade with the native peoples. Regardless of the tension, however, St. Louis was a market city of importance in and well beyond the colonial period. Large boats docked at its wharves, while smaller vessels navigated the shallower stretches of river with their loads of grain, lumber, furs, and salt pork. In 1849, with the California gold rush, came the miners and emigrants, bent on crossing the plains as quickly as possible. St. Louis was once again the gateway city, providing the starting point for many headed to the West. Unfortunately, that same year, cholera, arriving with the emigrants, spread through the city, killing hundreds. Then, a steamboat exploded while docked at one of the crowded levees and fire spread to the center of the city. Before the fires were extinguished, more than a dozen blocks of city buildings were destroyed. One of the few buildings to survive the fire was the Old Cathedral, which had been built on the original site of the first church. But St. Louis quickly rebuilt, this time with brick and iron rather than wood. The city was destined to become a major manufacturing center, host to the World’s Fair and the Olympic Games in 1904, site of the nation’s first gasoline station, and the future home of Fortune 500 companies.
