The Way Its Supposed To Work

No, but started around 2 am, arriving back around 9-10, I can’t ask him much more, he’s been dead 9 years.
They did have photos of him in younger years with railroad cross ties over each shoulder walking through a muddy field to try and put under wheels of an old cabless combine, when they’ve finally got those.
And you can travel more than 30 miles on a horse/day.
Easy company, 506 PIR marched 115 Miles on backroads/mud of GA and arrived on the 3rd day, and that’s a battalion.
We’re not talking of todays time, we’re talking a farmer who worked every day, even driving a tractor on an oxygen tank and we had to pick him up and put him in the tractor and lower him out of it each day.

 

You can do more than 30 miles in a day, as long as it's a one-off and you're not doing it every day. Easy company did 39 miles per day for three days. It sounds like your guy was claiming 200 miles per day every day, half of that fully loaded, which would have been walking speed at best. But even if he only claimed 100 per day, that's still quite a run without relay teams.

Now, I'm not doubting that he worked his ### off or that he worked all day. I'm just saying the actual 'number of miles' may have experienced some embellishment at some point.

 

Here's an awesome video clip of a city street in 1906, slowed down to remove the "fast forward" effect which is typical of early hand crank video footage. Off to the right can be seen several heavily loaded horse drawn wagons, crawling along at typical walking speed.



Fun fact: this footage is actually of Market Street in San Francisco. A few weeks after this rare footage was captured, the whole area would be flattened by an earthquake. I'm not sure if any of these buildings survived.

 

You sir are a good man. Hat's off to you. There are those of us who help, and those who decide to sit back and watch others fail and put it on youtube. I hope our good deeds rub off on people.

 

Say what

 

and there are those who offer help and get attitude in return. From most.