Covered Wagon Supplies
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Supplies Needed for a Wagon Train Trip of Two Years
(for 3 or 4 men)

Food Needed:

450 # flour

6 # tea

125 # crackers

 

90 # sugar

45 # coffee

2 bushels corn

 

10 # cheese

100 # bacon

2 bushels cornmeal

 

30 # salt

6 gallons vinegar

2 bushels dried apples

 

1 # pepper

4 gallons molasses

2 bushels beans

 

6 # soleratus (baking soda)

1 ounce peppermint

30 # rice

 

3 bottles lemon syrup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medicines:

5 quarts brandy

2 # tartaric acid

1 # epsom salts

 

1 quart liniment

1 ounce calomel

1 # sulfur

 

1/2 # ginger

2 ounce ammonia

1/2 # cayenne

 

1/2 ounce quinine

1 pint castor oil

2 ounces opium

 

1/2 # camphor

3 # soda

1 pint sweet oil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Supplies:

3 # rough nails

1 bottle ink, pens

3 axes

 

Matches (in a jar)

4 cinch pins

3 hatchets

 

12 # lead

1 gallon tar

3 spades

 

10 # black powder

1 quart turpentine

6 augers

 

1 quart No. 6 shot

2 water kegs

3 hand saws

 

2000 percussion caps

2 frying pans

3 cross cut saws

 

1 paper of pins

10 # soap

3 mallets

 

1 paper of needles

2 sugar buckets

4 gallon sized jugs

 

Spool of stout linen thread

2 camp kettles

3 water buckets

 

Thimble

1 coffee pot

1 demijohn (glass bottle)

 

Buckskin for patching

1 coffee mill

3 flint stones

 

40 feet of rope

3 tin plates

Spoons, Forks, Knives

Clothing for Each Man:

 

2 stout suits with extra pants

A dozen pair of socks

 

5 hickory shirts

2 wool undershirts

 

2 pair stout shoes and boots

2 pair drawers

 

India rubber coat

4 handkerchiefs

 

Tent blanket

A good stout coat

 

Brimmed hat

 

 Last modified on May 14, 2008