Timeline for Possible distance travelled by horse over 6 weeks?
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| Jul 29, 2022 at 16:15 | comment | added | Gillgamesh | GOOGLE FOO! deephollowranch.com/how-far-can-a-horse-travel-in-a-day/…. | |
| Jul 29, 2022 at 13:17 | comment | added | user535733 | Settlements days apart suggests a lot of trail or even wilderness travel. Not easy roads with convenient bridges. | |
| Jul 29, 2022 at 12:40 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 9, 2019 at 9:49 | answer | added | Sarah Waldock | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 23, 2018 at 19:12 | answer | added | Sherwood Botsford | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Sep 28, 2018 at 23:57 | answer | added | Carole boldt | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 15, 2018 at 22:06 | answer | added | HA Harvey | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 8, 2018 at 21:16 | answer | added | Lila | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 23:02 | answer | added | Steven | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 4, 2017 at 16:06 | answer | added | Andrew Neely | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 4, 2017 at 14:55 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 19:52 | comment | added | Tonny | @John Thank you for the link. Looks very interesting. | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 13:44 | comment | added | John | this site "a Writers guide to horses" might help, lrgaf.org/guide/writers-guide.htm | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 13:30 | answer | added | roy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 23:16 | comment | added | Tonny | @Finch I hadn't really thought on that, but that sounds very right. Thanks for the tip. I'll keep it in mind for the future. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 14:08 | answer | added | fgysin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 1:03 | comment | added | Finch | Tangentially, about farriers -- in a culture with such a strong focus on human/equine bonds, I'd expect every person in that group to have at least a basic education in hoof care well beyond what the average rider has today, and at least a quarter of the group would almost certainly have journeyman+ knowledge in the field. Hoof health is hugely important to a horse, and poor hoof care can easily result in the crippling or death of a horse. Not saying they'd carry an anvil around with them, but the specialized knowledge itself almost has to be commonplace in this environment. | |
| Dec 12, 2015 at 16:00 | answer | added | Sifa Poulton | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 7, 2015 at 5:30 | comment | added | Tonny | @lohoris Around here we go artic, Sub-artic, temperate, Mediterranean, sub-tropical, tropical. Terminology apparently varies somewhat... | |
| Sep 6, 2015 at 10:35 | comment | added | o0'. | @Tonny ok then I guess I'm not sure what you mean with "temperate". I was thinking along the lines of "Mediterranean". | |
| Sep 6, 2015 at 4:52 | comment | added | Tonny | @lohoris Cold? That's a pretty normal temperature range for south of Brittain, mid-France, mid-Germany. Scandinavians would even call it a hot summer. I realize I'm thinking in terms of a sea-climate. A continental climate would be hotter in summer, colder in winter at the same lattitude. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 8:47 | comment | added | o0'. | Pretty cold for a temperate summer, I must say… | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 17:45 | answer | added | jamesqf | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 17:23 | answer | added | user3082 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 30, 2015 at 16:49 | vote | accept | Tonny | ||
| S Dec 17, 2014 at 11:51 | history | suggested | tshepang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
needless apology
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| Dec 15, 2014 at 22:10 | answer | added | IchabodE | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 11:05 | answer | added | glenatron | timeline score: 13 | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 23:26 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | This is an excellent example of a question that is detailed enough to support good answers while not so specialized that it won't help anybody else. Nice job! | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 4:33 | comment | added | ckersch | An area mostly populated by nomadic groups would have fewer towns. Likewise, if an area is home to a mostly seafaring people, they may build towns at good port locations, rather than a day's travel apart. | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 11:58 | history | edited | Tonny | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added clarification of the "inn" topic as this was raising some questions on comments.
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| Dec 13, 2014 at 11:48 | comment | added | Tonny | @TimB I know that. And I never said that they were always spaced exactly 4-5 days apart. I meant it more as a general rule of thumb that they can expect to encounter an inn at least once every 5 days. Possibly more. I will edit the question to clarify this point as it seems to raise some discussion. | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 11:26 | comment | added | Tim B | @Tonny That's unlikely. Towns grow up where there is a reason for them (a natural resource, a river crossing, etc). They may be on average every 4 days but sometimes you would find two 1 day apart, sometimes you might go a week without one. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 20:33 | comment | added | Tonny | @IlmariKaronen That is easy to explain away. What do you think of: 'The country is still developing. The density of villages and caravanserai's isn't yet up to the "1 day travel apart" level. The government has however stimulated that there is at least one every 4-5 days of travel along each long-distance road.' | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 20:06 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | A bit tangentially, I find your "town every 4 or 5 days" bit somewhat unrealistic. In reasonably populated areas, and/or on well-travelled routes, towns and/or inns ought to be a bit less than a day's travel apart, simply because that's the longest one can reasonably go without stopping; if they're further apart than that, some enterprising person will set up a guesthouse at the halfway point, and eventually there'll be a new town there. Conversely, if they're trekking across unsettled wilderness, there might not be any towns at all, and if there are, they're unlikely to be regularly spaced. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 19:29 | comment | added | Tonny | @Oldcat I know that :-) And this is exactly why I'm asking. All the info I've managed to find so far deals with relay riding with frequent horse-changes (every 30-40 kilometers in most cases). | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 18:40 | comment | added | Tim B | Getting the baseline is a really good idea, then you can inject events (could be as mundane as a thrown horseshoe or a whole sub plot) to slow things down or speed them up as needed. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 17:56 | answer | added | Oldcat | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 17:40 | comment | added | Oldcat | Your requirements will reduce the actual speed, because in history the best rates were achieved by switching horses at government way-stations. Thus a courier could go faster than one horse of whatever quality could sustain full time, day and night. This was done from Ancient Persia to the Pony Express. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 16:36 | answer | added | Vincent | timeline score: 23 | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 16:34 | answer | added | ckersch | timeline score: 55 | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 16:08 | history | asked | Tonny | CC BY-SA 3.0 |