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Drying meat

Drying meat.jpg We made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsTahitian fleet off OpareeWe made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsTahitian fleet off OpareeWe made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsTahitian fleet off OpareeWe made our eleventh camp on the north side of the MissouriThumbnailsTahitian fleet off Oparee

Buffalo-Bird Woman often speaks of dried buffalo meat. If you want to know what it was like, cut a steak into thin pieces, and dry on a stage of green sticks, three feet high. This may be done in the sun; or, a small fire may be made beneath, to smoke as well as dry the meat.