Early 20th Century

The Long Riders' Guild

Equestrian Travel Timeline - the early 20th Century

Year	Name of Rider	Details	Miles
1902	Erich von Salzmann	Through Central Asia from Peking to Berlin.	5,000
1903	M D Wenyon	Across Siberia.	?
1905	Alex Sweet & Armoy Knox	Through Texas	?
1907	Quincy & Ella Scott	St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington, on “broncos named Hike & Hobo.”	2,300
1907	Daniel Bruun	Through Iceland.	?
1909	Bud and Temple Abernathy (aged 9 and 5, traveling alone)	Frederick, Oklahoma, to Santa Fe, New Mexico and back, on "Sam Bass, an Arab and Geronimo, a half-Shetland pony."	1,200
1909	John Anderson	Through the wilds of Brazil.	?
1910	Alexandra Kudacheva	Harbin, China to St Petersburg, Russia, in 500 days.	9,500
1910	Nan Jane Aspinwall	San Francisco, California to New York, USA	4,500
1910	Bud and Temple Abernathy (aged 10 and 6, traveling alone)	Cross Roads, Oklahoma, to New York City, on "Sam Bass, an Arab and a red and white Pinto pony named Wylie Haynes."	2,000
1911	Bud and Temple Abernathy (aged 11 and 7, traveling alone)	Coney Island, New York to Golden Gate Park, California, in 62 days, on "Sam Bass, an Arab and a red and white Pinto pony named Wylie Haynes."	3,619
1911	J. Smeaton Chase	El Monte, California to Smith River Corners, Oregon, on a “Nevada range pony named ‘Chino’.”	1,000
1911	J.D. Falconer	Through Cameroon, Nigeria and the Sudan.	?
1912	The Overland Westerners	(George and Charlie Beck, Jay Ransom, Raymond Rayne). Through all lower 48 states of the USA. One horse, a Morab gelding named Pinto, completes the entire trip.	20,352
1913	Walter Harris	“The longest ride with one horse in Australian history.”	?
1913	Eberhard Joachim, Duke of Westarp	Through Turkey and Persia.	?
1917	G. W. Ray	Through the Chaco Indian territory of Paraguay on “native horses, small, wiry and wild”.	1,000
1917	A. C. Veatch	From Quito, Ecuador to Bogota, Columbia.	750
1919	Dr Thomas Lambie	Through Abyssinia on a “Gallas gelding named Biru.”	2,000
1922	C.H. Prodger	Through Bolivia.	?
1923	Clyde Kluckhorn	Through the American Southwest on an “Arizona bronco named Pronto.”	2,500
1925	Aime Tschiffely	Buenos Aires, Argentina to Washington, DC on “Criollo geldings named Mancha and Gato”.	10,000
1926	Mary Roberts Rineheart	Through the Egyptian desert.	?
1928	Anna Strong	Through the Pamir Mountains of Kirghizistan on an “Iomud stallion named Alai”.	500
1929	Negley Farson	Utsch Kalan, Karachay to Batalpaschinsk, Russia via the Caucasian mountains on “two Tartar horses named Kolya & Marusha.”	250

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