Title. It's 98 degrees out right now, and walking two miles just about wore me out. And I'm not even doing any hard manual labor like farming or ranching. How did people back in the day (Native Americans, Spanish settlers, frontier cowboys,etc) survive in this kind of constant heat and manage to be productive?
Hey there, check out these past threads while you're waiting:
How did laborers in the American South "beat the heat" before the invention of air conditioning? by /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov
How did air conditioning change the culture of the southern United States? by /u/svarogteuse