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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