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How did Settlers and Cowboys Calculate Miles?

by | Apr 24, 2019 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

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How did settlers and cowboys calculate miles? Jason Bledsoe Felton, Delaware Trail riding cowboys had no way to calculate the miles—but the “cookie” driving the chuckwagon could, just like the setters did. They could use an odometer. Odometers of some kind have been around at least since Roman times. An early method of


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