Our Friend Chuck Wagon

Cowboys love to eat, and it was an essential part of modern-day life as well as the old cattle drives. The cookie was a very important part of the crew in the old times of those great cattle drives from Texas to Kansas. This poem is a tribute to that Chuck Wagon. It's called Our Friend Chuck Wagon.

An army travels on its stomach. A wise person once said,

"Because of food supplies important when a group's marching ahead,

we have to have food when a group is on the move.

It's essential to life and to keep us in the groove."

That's true for armies as seen from soldier's leadership

and for others such as a lengthy family trip.

It was also true in yesteryear on cattle drives of old

when Longhorn herds came North with cowboys brave and bold.

Those cowboys had to eat. Chuck Wagon came too

with food supplies and a cook to make it do.

It might have sourdough for biscuits, lots of pots and pans

with coffee, dried fruit beans, and maybe something in some cans,

but Chuck Wagon would roll along accompanying the herd

to serve the Cowboys food when the boss would give the word.

We give thanks for this system which former history reveals.

I guess that Chuck Wagon was the original Meals on Wheels,

Happy trails.