Lewis & Clark Trail
Missouri Breaks
Montana
Hunter Guthrie, left, and Christie Hicks, right, prepare poached eggs and English muffins for our final breakfast. I marvelled at the ingenius utensils applied to the cooking of tasty meals . The Corps of Discovery didn't lack cooking tools either. It was victualled in a well organized military manner. The Captains' instructions were explicit: " The Kittles and other Public utensels for Cooking Shall be produced this evening ... and an equal division shall take place of the Same, among the non commissioned officers Commanding the Squads, Those non-commissioned officers shall make an equal Division of the proportion of these utensils between their own messes of their respective Squads, - each squad shall shall be divided into two messes, at head of one of which the Commanding Serjeant Shall Preside."
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