How Does Food Quality Affect Cowboys Morale

Have you ever experienced disappointment or joy following a meal? Cowboys are usually known for leading difficult lives, but they also experience these feelings after a meal, which lowers their morale and affects how they feel while working. The texts "The Cowboy's Home on Wheels" and "The U-S-U Range" demonstrate how food quality affects the cowboys' morale.

Firstly, a diet of unsatisfying meals can discourage a cowboy's work performance. The food they eat might not be enough for them to do their job. In "The Cowboy's Home on Wheels" it states, "Usually, the cowboy's food was boring and unappetizing." This shows what the food the cowboys usually eat and what it's like. Cowboys go through hard physical labor, so their bland and unappetizing food could impact their mood and general well-being. They could become tired and this affects their morale and productivity.

The text states, "Cowboys ate plenty of beans, rice, sourdough biscuits, salt pork, and strong coffee." and "The chuck wagon soon was the backbone of all successful cattle drives." This shows the amazing foods cowboys were offered and how it attracted more cowboys. Their morale was raised and Goodnight was attaining his goal as a result of the chuck wagon being built.

Similarly, in the poem "The U-S-U Range," there is a song sung about life as a cowboy and the distasteful meals that they eat like cold beef for breakfast and beans with cold rice for dinner. This is similar to the unappetizing meals they were fed before the invention of the chuck wagon. As it's stated in the poem, "You are up in the morning at the daybreak / To eat cold beef and U-S-U steak," and "The grub that you get is beans and cold rice / And U-S-U steak cooked up very nice;." This illustrates the terrible meals that cowboys had to consume before and after work, including low