Year

Name of Rider

Details

Miles

1930

M.B. Williams

From Lake Louise, Alberta to Golden, British Columbia, Canada, along the Kicking Horse Trail.

500

1930

Countess Linde von Rosen

Through Europe on her horse Castor.

?

1931

Joseph Goodwin & Robert Horiguchi

McLean, Texas to Mexico City, Mexico on “Mexican mustangs named Pistole and Negra.”

1,100

1932

Bronco Charlie Miller

New York to San Francisco on “Pole Star”.

3,000

1933

Cliff & Ruth Kopas

Calgary, Alberta to Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada on “Canadian Cayuses named Rex and Dream.”

1,500

1934

Magdelene Weale

Through the Highlands of Shropshire on “Sandy, a mare pony from the Minsterley District.”

250

1934

A.R. Lindt

Through Manchuko.

?

1935

Gabysh Mamysh

Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan to Moscow, Russia on Akhal-Teke horses.

2,666

1935

Peter Fleming & Ella Maillart

Peking, China to Srinagar, Kashmir on a “Tangut pony named Greys.”

2,500

1935

Aime Tschiffely

Through southern England on a “New Forest pony named Violet.”

500

1935

Valdemar Langlet

Through Hungary.

?

1936

Hope Hewitt

Through northern Wales.

?

1936

George Leichner

Through the Highlands of Abyssinia.

?

1937

Hans Schwarz

From Switzerland to Istanbul, Turkey.

4,500

1937

Ella Maillart

From Tien Shan, North West Mongolia, to Kazalinsk, Kazakhstan on “a Kirghiz mare that rears and bites.”

1,000

1937

Ernest Fox

Through the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan on a “Badakhshi stallion named Smala.”

1,500

1938

Beryl Smeeton

From Punta Arenas, Patagonia to Puerto Aisen, Chile on “ten wild and frisky horses from a trupilla.”

1,000

1938

Margaret Leigh

Cornwall, England to Strathascaig, Scotland on a “Cob mare named Ladybird.”

562

1939

Mary Bosanquet

Vancouver, Canada to New York, USA on “Canadian cowponies named Timothy and Jonty.”

2,200

1941

Ginny Shumaker & Myldred Bickham

Sandusky, Ohio to Pomona, California, on “a gray mare named Silver Queen and a spotted horse named Painted Chief.”

2,500

1941

Wilfred Skrede

Kashgar, China to Srinagar, Kashmir on a “Karabair pony named Mohammad.”

1,000

1942

Ginny & Alma Shumaker

Sandusky, Ohio to New York, USA as “advance couriers for Gene Autry’s ‘Victory Stampede Rodeo’.”

2,000

1942

J. Wentworth Day

Through England on a “Thoroughbred gelding named Sir Robert.”

1,000

1948

John & Lulu Beard

Portland, Oregon to Independence, Missouri, USA, via the Oregon Trail on “Quarter horses named Black Diamond and Black Fairy.”

2,500

1949

Franc & Jean Shor

Faizabad, Afghanistan to Baltit, Hunza on “thin, sickly, old horses scarcely thirteen hands high.”

750

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