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I have a few questions that Google has failed me on.
1) New Orleans in 1875. I realize it's an older city, but it's not an Eastern one. It's closer to the old West. So I'm wondering about gun laws. Would people have been packing heat? Six shooters on the hip? Or was it more "civilized" like say, Philadelphia or other older established cities of the time? I'm pretty sure it wasn't like Tombstone where gunfights were common. Maybe more like Dodge City? Check your guns at the saloon?
2) The swamps that surrounded New Orleans. I'm wondering how wild it would have been back then. I'm not worried about malaria for the story, but if someone had to head through the swamps (I have an old voodoo hermit living in a hut in the swamps and my MC has to visit him), would there have been walking trails back then or would they only have been able to travel by some sort of boat? Could you ride a horse through? And how close were the swamps back then? Could you have walked out of a city street and found yourself surrounded by gators?
3) I think that's the first year for the Mardi Gras as an "Official" legal holiday. How many days do they have parades? Would it be possible to have parades nightly for several days?
Thanks all!
1) New Orleans in 1875. I realize it's an older city, but it's not an Eastern one. It's closer to the old West. So I'm wondering about gun laws. Would people have been packing heat? Six shooters on the hip? Or was it more "civilized" like say, Philadelphia or other older established cities of the time? I'm pretty sure it wasn't like Tombstone where gunfights were common. Maybe more like Dodge City? Check your guns at the saloon?
2) The swamps that surrounded New Orleans. I'm wondering how wild it would have been back then. I'm not worried about malaria for the story, but if someone had to head through the swamps (I have an old voodoo hermit living in a hut in the swamps and my MC has to visit him), would there have been walking trails back then or would they only have been able to travel by some sort of boat? Could you ride a horse through? And how close were the swamps back then? Could you have walked out of a city street and found yourself surrounded by gators?
3) I think that's the first year for the Mardi Gras as an "Official" legal holiday. How many days do they have parades? Would it be possible to have parades nightly for several days?
Thanks all!