I don't know what their mode of transportation was but it continues to amaze me how my ancestors moved around. The grandfather I knew as a child and than as a young man came over from England in 1895. He landed in Galveston and brought a bicycle which he promptly traded for a horse. He met my grandmother in Alameda, California and then my mother was born in Portland. Gale Gorman Houston On Apr 14, 2012, at 3:10 PM, fenenga@connpoint.net wrote: what's the most likely migration route from New Orleans to Boston 1878-1884? I realize there's paddleboat up the Mississippi to the Ohio, then train to Boston, but what other routes and manner of transport were likely?