As I am in my eighties, I remember mule and horse travels. Hot summers were bad on the animals pulling loads. When they were wet with sweat and breathing hard as they did in heat of summer , travel had to be broken for the animals to cool down. Also it required more water for them to drink and camping for the nights required finding streams to quench the humans' thirst and restore the water jugs. And watering the animals. Summer was never used for long trips except in emergencies. Also in summer the metal rims on the wheels expanded and every so often the wagon had to be submerged axel deep in a stream for so many hours and then moved enough to soak the other half of the wheels so that the wood expanded and the steel rims shrunk again. Yoy didn't have to worry with these things in winter. It would be my guess that this was true in 17's and 1800's as well as it was in the early 1900's. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:05 AM Subject: [GEORGIA] DIARY OF AN 1858 WAGON TRAIN JOURNEY > Brenda, > Please do tell the reason they left so late in the year. > Thanks, Sharon > > > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 9:16 AM > Subject: [GEORGIA] DIARY OF AN 1858 WAGON TRAIN JOURNEY > > > I have a copy of a Diary on a trip made from Lincoln Co. NC. to Pope Co. > AR in > 1858. The copy was transcribe by a Blackburn descendant which still lives > in > Pope Co. AR. > > They left 5th Oct 1858 from Lincoln co. NC and arrived in Pope Co. Ar. 2nd > Jan > 1859, this was close to 1000 miles in distance. It is a long Diary I > think > close to 20 pages and I think to long to place on this page. > > It also doesn't concern GA and their travel, but it is interesting > reading. > > Brenda > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security > tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, > free AOL Mail and more. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

How very interesting, thank you for your insight. Sharon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] DIARY OF AN 1858 WAGON TRAIN JOURNEY As I am in my eighties, I remember mule and horse travels. Hot summers were bad on the animals pulling loads. When they were wet with sweat and breathing hard as they did in heat of summer , travel had to be broken for the animals to cool down. Also it required more water for them to drink and camping for the nights required finding streams to quench the humans' thirst and restore the water jugs. And watering the animals. Summer was never used for long trips except in emergencies. Also in summer the metal rims on the wheels expanded and every so often the wagon had to be submerged axel deep in a stream for so many hours and then moved enough to soak the other half of the wheels so that the wood expanded and the steel rims shrunk again. Yoy didn't have to worry with these things in winter. It would be my guess that this was true in 17's and 1800's as well as it was in the early 1900's. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [GEORGIA] DIARY OF AN 1858 WAGON TRAIN JOURNEY > Brenda, > Please do tell the reason they left so late in the year. > Thanks, Sharon ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.