straw-ticks

Updated: May 2, 2025

For a long time "straw-ticks" large cloth bags filled with straw or sometimes dry grass or leaves were articles of luxury. Iron pots and knives were necessities which the wise householder carried with him from his eastern or southern home. In the West they were hard to obtain.

Frederic Austin Ogg - The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond