Show UNKNOWN GENIUS GAVE AMERICAN BUGGY TO WORLD Many ny I of our land transportation methods are arc of European origin but Lut the old oM family buggy Luggy Is dIstinctly American No one knows just who dill did build the first one according to Carl W V of the Smithsonian Institution who ho spent a lot of time looking th matter up but It wa was use used In this c first of all American roads were ere extremely bad tollo following Ing the revolution some somo still arc are and the only conveyances were the heavy Y wagons drawn by horses or oxen ThIs Tills was ns aery a sery ery slow method meU of transportation About the best way to get any place was to cut across the hills and walk wall Of course If It you were well to do and own owned ell a horse and saddle s that ws taster faster too Yankee Ingenuity wouldn t be de- de de ned even then and about 0 0 some smart fellow built the first light wag wagon wagon wagon on and equipped It with sprIngs Thus we had hind our first agon Thus we hind had our first spring wagon from which our buggy bugy was eloped Then about 1840 1540 somebody else wanted to go still faster and built the first one hoss hoss shay and the gig the same thing In a different form t two 0 wheels In which the spotts ts went rattling about at nt a great grent rate of speed Of course the railroad came alon along about that time but you didn t hn have base e to lay tracks for tor a buggy and It held belll Its own throughout the 1 century centuri until the auto finally just about put It out ot of bust busl bustness ness The depression made a lot Jot of folks folls get out their old buggies how however however ever er so we still see seo a few of ot them even around even In to the National tal tal Pathfinder Magazine l |