Transportation

• During the 1850s Texans rode- horses or wagons pulled by horses, mules or oxen

• Sandbars and rafts, or floating masses of natural debris made steam boat travel impossible in most Texas rivers

• In Eastern Texas, there was larger rivers so small boats could travel upstream for about 100 miles if the rainfall raised the water

• most town had stagecoaches and they carried these things- a few people, some freight and mail.

• they had the Butterfly field, a stagecoach service, which ran across Northern Texas and also went from Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Coast.

• the railroad construction started in the 1850s but by the 1860s, thee was over 400 miles of railroad tracks in service