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The Long Riders' Guild
Equestrian
Travel Timeline - 1879
to 1897
Year
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Name of Rider
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Details
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Miles
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1879
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Lady Anne Blunt
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Travels along the Euphrates river with Arab nomads.
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?
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1884
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Mary Lester
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Through the Spanish Honduras.
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?
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1884
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Isabella Williamson
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Through remote portions of China.
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?
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1887
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Warren Johnson
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From the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
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3,000
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1888
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John Codman
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Through New England, USA on an “eight-year-old mare named Fanny.”
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500
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1889
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Mikhail Vasilievitch Aseev
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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.”
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2,200
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1889
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Dmitry Peshkov
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Albanzinski, Siberia, to St. Petersburg, Russia, on a “Cossack pacer
named Seriy.”
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5,500
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1889
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Charles Dudley Warner
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Abingdon, Virginia, through the American South on “good walking
horses”.
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500
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1889
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Mrs. Alec Tweedie
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Through Iceland.
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?
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1890
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Thomas Stevens
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From Moscow, Russia, to the Black Sea on a “Hungarian Furioso named
Texas.”
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1,100
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1891
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Roger Pocock
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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.”
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3,600
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1891
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Harry De Windt
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From Persia to India via Baluchistan.
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3,000
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1893
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William Savage Landor
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Through Japan.
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3,800
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1894
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Ella Sykes
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From Enzeli, Persia, to Quetta, Baluchistan on an “Arab stallion named
Charters” (riding sidesaddle).
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3,000
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1896
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Otto Ehlers
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Through Siam, Tonking, and Annam.
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?
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1897
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Rudolf Fitzner
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Through Tunis.
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?
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1899 |
Charles
Cottu |
Paris to Vienna and back on "my mare, Irish
Lass." |
2,000 |
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