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Frontier Odometers

by | Apr 20, 2017 | True West Blog

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In a diary from an emigrant crossing to the California gold fields in 1849. "Life on the Plains and at the Diggins," by Alonzo Delano. He is very specific about distances travelled each day and about distances reported to them by other travelers.  "Eight miles to good water.” This begs the question is how did such pilgrims determine these distances? They used Odometers.  Some kind of odomet


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