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Cooking Grizzly Indian Style

By: Phil Scriver, LC200 Historian

Cooking meat was always a problem for travelers on the frontier. There was no quick easy method, but everyone continually searched for different ways that would retain the flavor and tenderness and hopefully take a shorter amount of time. Captain Lewis was a keen observer of the methods used by the Nez Perce. He liked all the results their way produced except for the taste.

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