It is very difficult to generalize about this. The earlier the period, and the more primitive the roads, the more variable the duration of the trip. And it would also depend on the purpose of the trip - to observe the landscape or to deliver a shipment. In early periods, after a rain, roads might became so bad as to double or triple the passage times. In general, a person on horseback and a horse-drawn wagon would go today, on a dirt road, as fast as then, so you might contact a living history museum and ask them. Phil Lord Historical Survey New York State Museum [log in to unmask] >>> Sue Thompson <[log in to unmask]> 11/19/97 07:14pm >>> looking for information on how long it would take for a horse and wagon to go one mile; for a horse/rider to go one mile. I am trying to get a feel for what it would of been like to live in 1898. thanks. Susan D. Thompson Administrative Assistant Department of Fruit and Vegetable Science 147 Plant Science Building Cornell University E-mail: [log in to unmask] http:/www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sdt1/ Phone: 607-255-7889 FAX: 607-255-0599 May I be at Peace. May my heart remain open. May I awaken to the light of own true nature. May I be healed. May I be a source of healing for all beings.