Book a Chuck Wagon Dinner and Old West show at the same time, for groups of any size.

Menu;

B.B.Q. Ribs, Ranch Beans, Baked Patato, and Bread.

Steak, Ranch Beans, Baked Patato, and Bread.

B.B.Q. (pulled) Pork on a Bun, Ranch Beans, Baked Patato.

Enjoy the Old West flavor of Chuck Wagon food while you meet the Six Gun For Hire crew and watch reenactments of Old West shotouts.

Set around the camp fire and listen to stories of the Old West done in a first person fashion, stories of Nebraska settlers as well as other areas.

Take picturs with lawmen and outlaws, handle a real 45 caliber pistol and 12 gage coach shotgun just like the ones used in the Old West.

Meet "Cookie" our Chuck Wagon cook and learn how he makes his dishes, if you enjoy Old West times and flavor, you'll love this, served up on Tin plates and cups, set on the ground, a stump or a rock (nothin fancy bout this here spread folks, just cowboy livin an eatin Old West Style).

Booking Information:

Email: sixgunforhire@rcom-ne.com

Call: 308-647-9123

Write:

Six Gun For Hire

P O Box 462

Shelton NE

68876

The high time of the trail drives lasted only about 20 years, from the end of the Civil War to the mid -1880's. In that brief period of time around 10 million cows walked the trails from Texas to the rail heads in Kansas and Missouri. Many of these went as far as Wyoming and even into Canada.

In the early days of the great trail drives the cowhand had to make do with what he could carry with him. This caused some rather hungry, uncomfortable times on the trail. Texas rancher Charles Goodnight saw an opportunity to fill this basic need and in 1866 created the prototype for the chuck wagon.

Brands included Studebaker, South Bend, Owensburrow, McCormick-Deering and Weber. McCormick-Deering in 1907 changed its name to International Harvester and continued to supply wagons until the 1940's. After 1936 all of the International wagons were manufactured by Keller Manufacturing Company, which discontinued production in 1943 and converted to the manufacture of furniture. Studebaker also built a heavier wagon known as the "roundup wagon" more suited to roundups but not as well suited to trail drives as the lighter chuckwagon. On large drives an additional wagon known as a "hoodlum wagon" was used for carrying bedrolls and personal gear.