So were early drivers expected to carry an axe to chop wood?
You gather up windfall. If you’re close enough to enough human settlement that all the windfall has been taken, there should be a hotel or at least a tavern or something.
Oh and like all the “farmer’s daughter” jokes that start from the premise of a traveler sleeping the night in a farmer’s barn come from here (and that given how American farmland tended to settle on a homestead and not village basis the inhabitants would also likely not see anyone unrelated often* and under those situations women are often very giving to outsiders, cf. Captain Cook and the reputation of Pacific island girls encountering American sailors)
* here think about the stereotype of the redneck Cletus impregnating his sister. Then realize that one factor behind Prohibition/Temperance in the 19th/early 20th agrarian America was that our rural drinking culture wasn’t “beers and drinking songs with the fellas” but “liquor and abusing your family”
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