The Long Riders' Guild

Equestrian Travel Timeline - 1879 to 1897

Year

Name of Rider

Details

Miles

1879

Lady Anne Blunt

Travels along the Euphrates river with Arab nomads.

?

1884

Mary Lester

Through the Spanish Honduras.

?

1884

Isabella Williamson

Through remote portions of China.

?

1887

Warren Johnson

From the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.

3,000

1888

John Codman

Through New England, USA on an “eight-year-old mare named Fanny.”

500

1889

Mikhail Vasilievitch Aseev

From Kiev, Russia, to Paris, France, at an average of 100 kilometers a day, on “two bay cavalry mares named Diana, an Anglo-Don, and Vlaga, a Novorossisski.”

2,200

1889

Dmitry Peshkov

Albanzinski, Siberia, to St. Petersburg, Russia, on a “Cossack pacer named Seriy.”

5,500

1889

Charles Dudley Warner

Abingdon, Virginia, through the American South on “good walking horses”.

500

1889

Mrs. Alec Tweedie

Through Iceland.

?

1890

Thomas Stevens

From Moscow, Russia, to the Black Sea on a “Hungarian Furioso named Texas.”

1,100

1891

Roger Pocock

Fort MacLeod, Canada, to Mexico City, Mexico along the Outlaw Trail on a “milk-white Arab gelding such as one might dream of in Paradise.”

3,600

1891

Harry De Windt

From Persia to India via Baluchistan.

3,000

1893

William Savage Landor

Through Japan.

3,800

1894

Ella Sykes

From Enzeli, Persia, to Quetta, Baluchistan on an “Arab stallion named Charters” (riding sidesaddle).

3,000

1896

Otto Ehlers

Through Siam, Tonking, and Annam.

?

1897

Rudolf Fitzner

Through Tunis.

?

1899 Charles Cottu Paris to Vienna and back on "my mare, Irish Lass."  

2,000

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