The maps above show the travel times in days and weeks from New York City to various locations across the United States in the years 1800, 1830, 1857 and 1930, from the 2012 article “How fast ...

All maps credit Charles O. Paullin, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States(1932), via By 1930, three days brought us 2,500 miles. In 1800, three days would have taken us just 250 ...