22 Days Until Trek - Hunting and Fishing

Hunting was an important part of procuring food for overland travel. Thank goodness we'll have a refrigerated trailer to keep our food fresh and healthy, and plenty of it. If we had to rely on our hunting skills to survive, do you think we could? As you're hiking, keep an eye out for animals that could be hunted if needed to survive. On the ranch, a beef might be our easiest prey. But don't think about it. The cows are not ours to eat.

“Hunting, fishing, and riding were high adventure, particularly to the young men. Hunting was not only fun but could also yield welcome meat for the pot. Almost anything that moved could be a target: deer, antelope, buffalo, bear, turkey, and ducks. Latter-day Saints were advised to kill only what they needed and not to waste the meat, a marked difference from some of the trigger-happy American trains.”

Selection from Stanley B. and Violet T. Kimball's 2011 book, Villages on Wheels: A Social History of the Gathering to Zion.

Yep, this AI-generated image is a little weird, but perhaps that is some of the charm.