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The Long Riders' Guild
Equestrian Travel Timeline - 1976
to 1979
Year
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Name of Rider
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Details
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Miles
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1976
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Stephane
Bigo
|
Istanbul, Turkey to Kabul, Afghanistan on “an Arabian gelding
Oudjanole.”
|
5,500
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1976
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Tom
Davis
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El Paso, Texas to Fairbanks, Alaska, USA on “Trashy & Freckles.”
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4,500
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1976
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Colonel
Peter Langstaff and Margo Atwood |
Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, to Tillamook, Oregon, on "an Arab stallion named Gebig
and a Morgan gelding called Cambridge Drifter." |
3,679 |
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1976
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Jeff
Foster
|
Barstow, California to New York, USA on a “gray gelding named
Pappy.”
|
3,000
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1976
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Adrianne
Cooper
|
Through the USA.
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2,000
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1976
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R.J.
Schweiger
|
Chicago, Illinois to Oklahoma City, USA on “three Tennessee Walkers
named Stormy, Frosty & John.”
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1,200
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1976
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Evelyne
Coquet
|
Through the Amazonian rain forest of Brazil to Peru.
|
?
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1976
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Lucy Leaf |
From the Guadalupe
Mountains in West Texas to Northern Virginia via the Deep South on Igor,
"a 16.1 bay horse likely of mixed blood." |
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1977
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Pierre
Peysson
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Chattanooga, Tennessee to California, USA.
|
2,000
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1977
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Richard
Barnes
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Through Wales, Scotland and England on a “Cob gelding named Remus.”
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1,100
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1977
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Jean-Francois
Ballereau
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Through France on a “horse named Landais.”
|
?
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1978
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Christian
Lile
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Through twelve European countries on “Filochard & Irene.”
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6,200
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1978
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Jean-Francois
Ballereau
|
From Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide with “an Appaloosa
named Marquise and a pony named Nestor.”
|
2,500
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1978
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Allan
& Cher Maybee
|
Boonville, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, via the Santa Fe
Trail, on “two Arabs named Regent and Cimarron.”
|
1,100
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1978
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Evelyne
Coquet
|
Through the Highlands of Scotland with her husband, Caddy, and their new
baby.
|
?
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1979
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Emile
Brager & Marie Roesle
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Through Europe.
|
6,250
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1979
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Stephane
Bigo
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Denver, Colorado, USA to Guatemala on “an American saddle horse
gelding named Omobono.”
|
6,000
|
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1979
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Pat
& Linda Schamber
|
Lewes, Delaware to Point Reyes, California, USA on an “Arab mare named
Mara and a Quarter horse mare named Sandy.”
|
3,000
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1979
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Jean-Francois
Ballereau
|
Through Arizona and Navajo land with “an Appaloosa named Marquise and
a pony named Nestor.”
|
1,000
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1979
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Virl
Norton
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Effingham, Illinois to Washington DC, USA, on two Arabs.
|
1,000
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