Before autos, people used to die riding, and driving horses.
Yup! One of the primary causes of death and injury on the old Santa Fe trail was falling asleep driving your wagon and falling off the front and under the wheels.
I always thought the old desperado, Clay Allison, met a bizarre death and it wasn’t by the six-gun! If memory serves me right. While he was driving his wagon back to his west Texas spread, a sack of flour shifted and was sliding off toward the ground. He allegedly reached for it, grabbed it, and it pulled him off the seat and he too, ended up under the wheels of his heavily loaded wagon. The End.
