mess-wagon

Then he mounted the tongue of the mess-wagon and called out, "We haf for breakfast cackle-berries, first vot iss come iss served, und those vot iss sleep late gets nodings."

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Quite near the well the mess-wagon had stopped and the cook was already preparing supper.

Letters on an Elk Hunt Elinore Pruitt Stewart

They searched the mess-wagon, even, although Herman had been sleeping there.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

We were more disappointed than I can tell you, but Mrs. Louderer merely went down to the river, a few yards away, and cut an armful of willow sticks wherewith to coax Chub to a little brisker pace, and then we took the trail of the departed mess-wagon.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

With few appliances it is really wonderful how a mess-wagon cook feeds the crowd so well.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

Soon we caught the glimmer of white canvas, and knew it was the cover of the mess-wagon, so we headed that way.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Over a course of a hundred miles or more he would ride relays at a speed that seemed incredible, and at the end of the journey operate with a calm hand for a gun-shot wound or a cruelly broken bone, sometimes on the box of a mess-wagon turned upside down on the prairie.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

The banjo traveled in state in the mess-wagon of the "Custer Trail," and hour on hour, about the camp-fire on the round-up, Eaton would play to the dreamy delight of the weary men.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

That evening as Sylvane was sitting around the mess-wagon with a dozen other cowpunchers, a stranger came walking from the direction of

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

The mess-wagon rattled down to the ford as the last of the herd scrambled ashore.

The Fighting Edge William MacLeod Raine 1912