SOURCE REFERENCES
01. Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and tTwentieth Centuries (September 7, 2001); Jacqueline H. Wolf; The Ohio State University Press
02. Maverick, The Thirty-Ninth Star (1958), Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
03. The Conjectural Maverick, Maverick Trails
Mellin's Food
Commercial evaporated food powder in the late 19th century.[1]
Developed by London chemist Gustav Mellin in 1866 as a dry extract of wheat, malted barley and bicarbonated potassium, proteins and salts.[1]
Mellin's Food appeared in the United States in 1874 and began production in Boston.[1]
The Thirty-Ninth Star: On July 6, 1876, Bart Maverick and Janet Kilmer passed an advertisement for Mellin's Food for Infants & Invalids posted on a storefront2] in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.[3]
An 1893 newspaper advertisement for Mellin's Food for Infants & Invalids.[4]
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