How were Old West hotel rooms heated?
Carolyn Childs (Houston, Texas)
Fires were a menace to those wood structures; they could wipe out an entire town. By the 1820s and 1830s, coal was quickly becoming a dominant fuel type. It revolutionized indoor heating. Iron furnaces or stoves helped.
Also coming into play in the 19th century was steam heating, which first appeared in the 1850s but gained popularity in the 1880s. This was another form of coal heating, as coal would be used to heat the
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