Often, people would walk beside their wagon and walkers generally travel at 2-3 miles per hour. On horseback (or on a wagon) it would, of course, depend on how fast the rider wanted to go, but as a top end perhaps looking at the pony express would give you a realistic top end. I believe they averaged about 15 miles per hour. Encyclopedias will tell you that a horses top speed is in the 20-30 mph range. On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Sue Thompson wrote: > 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. > ************************************************************************** Wayne L. Miller Special Collections Librarian Feinberg Library 2 Draper Avenue 518-564-5206 Plattsburgh, NY 12901 [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] "I wonder what will happen today!" -Maggie Muggins- "Not even God can change history...which is why he tolerates historians." -Voltaire **************************************************************************