[AT] Culverts

[Chuck Saunders]

Even with good horses, it's hard to "kick into passing gear". ?It is
amazing how much smaller the world has become over the years.
Chuck
KC MO

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:25 AM, David Bruce <davidbruce at yadtel.net> wrote:
> I suspect these stories aren't so unique for that day.  I never knew of
> them being armed on the trip but it would not be a shock.  These trips
> would have been in the same era.
>
> It always gives me pause when I can follow the exact same route and even
> with the sprawl I can make that distance in a few minutes rather than a day.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
> On 3/26/2012 8:48 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> David,  my father used to tell me about going with his dad to sell tobacco
>> in Greenville, NC.  It was about 25 or 30 miles.  They went by horse or mule
>> drawn wagon.  It took the whole day to
>> get there and unload.  The next day they sold the tobacco on the auction and
>> got paid in cash.  He said they always went armed with a shotgun because
>> there were bandits on the road.  This would
>> have been in the 1920 to 1930 era.
>>
>> Pretty much the same story as yours except location and being armed.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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