For 38 years, Kent Rollins—selected as the “Best Cowboy Humorist and Storyteller of the Year” by the Academy of Western Artists in 2002—has taken his 1876 Studebaker chuck wagon and handmade wood-fired stove, nicknamed “Bertha,” to working ranches across America.
“I’m on vacation every day,” said Rollins in a recent interview with The Epoch Times about his life as one of the last “cookies,” as ranch cooks are called, to actually work from a chuck wagon. “My dad told me, ‘Find a job you like to do, do it better than anybody else [and] you'll never have a ‘job.’”
