On the road with Mr. Basse - Fredericksburg Standard

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Hindsights, on February 1, 2023

On the road with Mr. Basse

In the 1860s, a round trip between Fredericksburg and San Antonio in a freight wagon took three weeks on the average, if the weather cooperated and the creek didn’t get out. By 1960, Basse Express diesel trucks made the 70-mile one-way trip from San Antonio to Fredericksburg in a couple of hours,

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