Old-Time Methods of Preserving Food

By Victor A. Croley
Published on November 1, 1970
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PHOTO: FOTOLIA/TMAX
These pioneers were familiar with wilderness living and at home on the sparsely settled frontiers of our growing country.

Mid-continent pioneers were mainly English, Scots and Irish
whose fathers had followed Boone from the Piedmont across
the Appalachian mountains into Tennessee and Kentucky.
There, when the war of 1812 broke out, sons and footloose
males enlisted to march and fight in Canada. Returning from
this fruitless and ill-timed venture, the soldiers were

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