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A rolling kitchen that fed cowboys before food trucks made it cool.
means A wagon outfitted with a portable kitchen, stove, and storage to cook and serve food for cowboys and laborers on cattle drives and in remote camps.
from A blend of "chuck" (slang for food, dating to the early 19th century and possibly tied to "chunk" — a hunk of meat or bread) and "wagon." The rig itself is popularly credited to cattle baron Charles Goodnight, who is said to have converted a sturdy army wagon for trail-driving cooks around the 1860s — a story that's widely repeated and broadly plausible, even if the exact details are hard to pin down.
- invented 1866
- Charles Goodnight rigged a war-surplus wagon for cattle drives
- the cook ruled
- The cook, or cookie, outranked everyone but the trail boss
- sourdough bank
- Cooks guarded sourdough starters like family heirlooms
- chuck means food
- Old slang for grub, hence chuck box and chuckwagon
- racing now
- Chuckwagon races thunder through modern rodeos at full gallop
calgary stampede chuckwagon — canadian rodeo in calgary featuring professional chuckwagon racing with six-horse teams, started 1923