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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 Kluckhohn

Through the American Southwest on an “Arizona bronco named Pronto.”

2,500

1925

Aimé 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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