Year

Name of Rider

Details

Miles

1697

Celia Fiennes

Land’s End, Cornwall, England to Aitchison Bank, Scotland

1,600

1758

Sir William Burrell

London, England to Inverness, Scotland, and back.

1,500

1801

Francois Michaux

Through the American South, including a visit to the Kentucky horse farms of Lexington

?

1827

James Paul Cobbett

Through France

800

1830

William Cobbett

Through England and Scotland

1,500

1846

George Ruxton

Vera Cruz, Mexico to St. Louis, Missouri on a “Mexican horse called Panchito.”

2,000

1853

Theodore Winthrop

The Dalles to Yoncalla, Oregon, on a “fine American mare”.

2,000

1853

William McCann

Through Argentina.

2,000

1854

W. Jerrold

Through Sweden during winter.

?

1857

Emily Lowe

Through Norway.

?

1859

Emily Lowe

Through Sicily.

?

1862

George Barrow

Through Wales.

?

1866

James Meline

Through the USA, via the South-West

2,000

1867

Isabel Burton

From Morro Velho to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, via the jungle, and alone.

400

1869

R. Mounteney Jephson

Through feudal Japan

1,000

1873

Andrew Wilson

Oopsung Gorge, Tibet, to Peshawar, India, on “a nameless little Spiti mare with goat-like agility.”

2,000

1874

Captain J. Forsyth

Through northern India

1,200

1875

Captain Frederick Burnaby

Kasala, Russia, to Khiva, Turkestan, on “Kirghiz horses.”

800

1875

Count Zoubovitch of Hungary

From Vienna, Austria, to Paris, France

800

1876

John Newman

Babylon to Ninevah

1,000

1876

Captain Williard Glazier

Boston, Massachusetts to San Francisco, California, on a “coal black Kentucky Black Hawk gelding named Paul Revere.”

3,000

1877

Captain Frederick Burnaby

Ismid to Batum, Turkey, on “native horses not much to look at.”

1,200

1877

Hippisley Cunliffe Marsh

Persia to India via Afghanistan.

3,000

1878

Lady Florence Dixie

La Colonia de Magellanes, Chile, into the depths of Patagonia on “Indian horses”.

750