Southern Cast Iron

Fire and Iron

I was headed to cook on a ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon just south of Claude, Texas, for three weeks one spring. That meant cooking three hearty meals a day for the cowboys from my 1976 Studebaker chuck wagon.

I went a day early so I could set up camp before all the fellers got in. I got the wagon situated along with

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