Equestrian Travel Timeline - the Thirties and Forties
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 |
Aimé 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 |
1946 | Jerry Van Meter | Guthrie, Oklahoma to Hollywood, California, on "an Osage Indian pony named Fan." |
1,500 |
1947 | George Patterson | Tatsienlu, Tibet, to Dibrugarh, Naga Tribal Territory in India, on "Kham horses from Tibet." |
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 |
Early | 1879-1900 | 1901-29 | 1930-49 | 1950-69 | 1970-75 | 1976-79 | 1980-85 | 1986-89 | 1990-95 | 1995-2001 |
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