Andrea, I got it at True Value here in town. I don't know about other hardware stores, but our local True Value has some furniture and other nice things, couples like to make selections there. It's Lodgeware. I think my DH paid $40 or $50 for it (it was my Mother's Day present). I bet you could find them and Bed, Bath and Beyond or some such store. Bigger Walmarts or maybe Target may have them, too.

I use it on the cooktop, in the oven, over a burner outdoors and I'm sure I could use it over the campfire if I really wanted to. It has a lid on it, and the whole thing is really pretty heavy. Paula Deen has a really good peach cobbler recipe with her dutch oven involving bisquick (on her website, and in her latest cookbook, PD and Friends I think is what its called). And the last time I cooked chicken fried steak in it was the best I ever had! I attempted fried chicken the other day and it was goooood too!!!

I cook with tomatoes in mine. Speghetti sauce, chili. I never heard otherwise.