I'm currently working on some fiction in which a small group of investigators are called to travel from Chicago, IL to Austin, TX.
Would it have been more practical in the 1880s to:
Riverboat down the Illinois River, to the Mississippi to New Orleans, then across to Matagorda Bay and up the Texan Colorado River to Austin?
OR
Go via various railroads?
Any ideas or discussion would be of great assistance.
Would it have been more practical in the 1880s to:
Riverboat down the Illinois River, to the Mississippi to New Orleans, then across to Matagorda Bay and up the Texan Colorado River to Austin?
OR
Go via various railroads?
Any ideas or discussion would be of great assistance.