Hope he was planning to invent air conditioning first.
“Hope he was planning to invent air conditioning first. “
You know we tend to think that the climate had to be the same in early 1800s but someone writing about the settlement of Texas made a convincing case that it wasn’t.
1816 was “the year without a summer” and it was also at the tale end of a longer cooling trend known as the Little Ice Age that ran from 1300 to 1870. So the American South and Mexico were much more comfortable when American adventurers were moving into them than they are today. No Manmade Global Warming involved either.