Time Travel

oscar · July 21, 2006, 10:25:44 PM

Ok here we are, it's 1800 something and were walking from St. Louis to the pacific ocean. On a good day you can acctually make 20 miles. i realize those folks were up with the sun or before and on the move. I wonder when "what time of day" did they stop for the night to make camp, care foir the animals they had with them, maybe hunt and shoot some game, cook food, eat, clean up and go to sleep. I have read some lewis and clark books but don't remember any hints as to the daily routine. I also realize that weather was probably the thing that metered their progress along with the oxen, cows and or horses. I also know they did not travel in single file like the movies portray, they spread out over the prarie and tapered back in together for the nights and crossing creeks and rivers and such terrain. Everyone pretty much walked as the wagons were full and very rough ridin.

Does anyone have a clue as to what they shot for, as a good time of day to stop?

Delmonico · July 21, 2006, 11:33:10 PM

I've seen recently that up at 4:30 to five, breakfast and packing plus breakfast by 7-7;30, stop for an hour or so around 11 and find a place to camp by 3-4. Should be 2 1/2 miles an hour on a good day. Not a real grueling pace.

oscar · July 21, 2006, 11:56:59 PM

How do you like my resistol? It's a big un. I figured out the avatar I think.

Delmonico · July 22, 2006, 12:14:33 AM

Tim McCoy?

oscar · July 23, 2006, 08:51:46 PM

Who is Tim Mc Coy? Do you mean Tim Mc Graw. I would be the "big Boned Version HA Ha ; )

Delmonico · July 24, 2006, 10:11:20 AM

Quote from: oscar on July 23, 2006, 08:51:46 PM
Who is Tim Mc Coy? Do you mean Tim Mc Graw. I would be the "big Boned Version HA Ha ; )

Tim McCoy wore 10 inch crown hats in the silent films. Tim McGraw is just one of these modern singers who can't sing. He wears a straw hat spray painted black.

Silver Creek Slim · July 24, 2006, 12:48:56 PM

Tim McCoy

Slim

oscar · July 24, 2006, 10:12:45 PM

Why lookie there, that sure does look like me, NOT
he's better lookin for sure. wow he was one of the first cone head cowboys.
I like the big hat because of the bald spot it cover up keepin me from being fried in the sun.
In the rain, and I have used it in the rain, the brim is so far out there, the drip line is way past your boots.
That's real nice. Thank Silver C Slim. That is a great picture.

oscar · July 24, 2006, 10:18:45 PM

Slim, Where is Leon Township located? I have been in the Indian Head region rice lake Mud lake to be exact. It is beautiful there. I loved Wisconsin, when I took a trip up there to visit friends. Oh and the cheese was to die for man. Your neighbors really know how to make that stuff taste so good.

Silver Creek Slim · July 25, 2006, 10:07:06 AM

Oscar,
Just outside of the metropolis of Pine River, Waushara County, WI.
We was in Rice Lake Thursday-Saturday of last week.

Slim

oscar · July 25, 2006, 11:00:15 PM

Were you working or a vacation? not trying to be nosy just interested.

Silver Creek Slim · July 26, 2006, 10:57:21 AM

Vacation. My uncle was racing his trotting horse at the Barron Co Fair. And, we went to see my sister and family 'fore the shipped out to the Azores later this month. My bro-in-law is a chaplain in the Air Force.

Slim

oscar · July 28, 2006, 10:24:19 PM

Sounds like you had a great time. good luck to you and your family.