The Long Riders' Guild

Long Rider Contributors

The following list contains the names of the more than 420 Long Riders who directly contributed to the creation of The Encyclopaedia of Equestrian Exploration. Their journeys span 5,000 years and represent millions of miles travelled by horses and humans on every continent.

Abernathy, Bud and Temple – starting at the ages of nine and five they rode from Oklahoma to New Mexico and back in 1909, rode from Oklahoma to New York City in 1910, and in 1911 rode from New York to San Francisco in 62 days, all without adult assistance.

Adshead, Harry and Lisa – rode from Wales to Jordan in 2004.

Aguiar, Jorge de – rode through Brazil in 1991.

Aguiar, Pedro Luis de – rode through Brazil in 1991.

Albright, Verne – starting in 1966, rode from Peru to California.

Alfieri, Vittorio – rode across England and Europe in 1785 .

Amor, Adam del – rode in the United States in 2006.

Anderson, Ed – starting in 2009, made mulitiple journeys along the Pacific Crest Trail.

Armand, Annick - rode across Turkey from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean in 2002.

Asmussen, Conan – in 2004 rode from Canada to the Mexican border when he was ten years old.

Asmussen, Hans – starting in 2004, made multiple journeys in the USA and Canada.

Arsuka, Nirwan Ahmad – starting in 2014, made journeys in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Aspinwall, Two-Gun Nan – was the first woman to ride ocean to ocean across the USA in 1910.

Asseyev, Mikhaïl Vassilievitch – rode from Kiev, Russia to Paris, France in 1889.

Azzam, Adnan – rode from Madrid, Spain to Mecca, Arabia in 1990.

Baaijens, Arita – rode through the Altai Mountains in Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and Russia in 2013.

Baker, Sir Samuel – rode through Abyssinia in 1865.

Ballereau, Jean François - made a series of rides in Europe and North America, then rode from Argentina to Columbia in 1982.

Barnes, Richard - rode the length and breadth of England, Scotland and Wales in 1977.

Barré, Gérard – rode through the Alps and France in 2000.

Barrett, Elizabeth – starting in 1986, made multiple journeys in Great Britain.

Bartz, Thomas - rode from Osh, Kirghizstan to Panjshir, Afghanistan in 2004.

Bayes, Jeremiah – rode in the United States in 2006.

Beard, John and Lulu – rode the length of the Oregon Trail in 1948.

Beck, Charles – starting in 1912, rode to 48 state capitals in the USA.

Beck, George – led the Overland Westerners Expedtion that rode to 48 state capitals in the USA starting in 1912.

Bedaux, Charles – rode across western Canada in 1934.

Beker, Ana – starting in 1950, rode from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Ottawa, Canada.

Berg, Roland – starting in 2010, made multiple journeys through Europe, Argentina and Patagonia.

Bessac, Frank – starting in 1948, rode through Mongolia, Turkestan and Tibet.

Best, Captain James John – rode through the mountains of Albania in 1838.

Bey, Riza – starting in 1900, rode through Anatolia, Arabia, Mesopotamia, the Middle East and the Balkans.

Bigler, Jessica - rode from Switzerland to the British Isles and back in 2007.

Bigo, Stephane - starting in 1976, rode through Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Brazil, Guatemala and the United States.

Bird, Isabella – starting in 1873, rode in Hawaii, the Rocky Mountains, Japan, Persia, Kurdistan, Korea and Tibet.

Blackburn, Rick - rode from Canada to Texas in 2009.

Blanchard, Augustin – rode in the United States in 2010.

Blashford-Snell, Colonel John – led the British Trans-Americas Expedition through the Darien Gap jungle between Panama and Columbia in 1971.

Blunt, Wilfred – journeyed into northern Arabia and the Nejd Desert in 1878.

Bond Head, Sir Francis - rode through the Argentine pampas, across the Andes Mountains and into Chile in 1825.

Bonneville, Captain Benjamin – rode through the western United States in 1832.

Bonvalot, Gabriel – starting in 1889, rode across the “roof of the world” by crossing the Pamir and Hindu Kush Mountains; then made a second journey across Russia, Siberia, Tibet and the Takla Makan desert before entering China.

Boone, Katherine – rode across Spain in 2001.

Borrow, George – starting in 1862, rode in England and then across Spain.

Bosanquet, Mary – rode from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York city in 1939.

Boshai, Dalaikhan rode in Mongolia and Kazakhstan in 2010.

Bougault, Laura – rode from South Africa to Malawi in 2001.

Bourboulon, Phillipe and Catherine de – starting in 1859, rode from Shanghai, China to Moscow, Russia.

Bowers, Henry "Birdie" – was a member of the Terra Nova equestrian expedition to Antarctica in 1911.

Boyd, Alistair – rode in Spain in 1966.

Bragge, Michael - rode from Brisbane to Melbourne in Australia in 1982.

Brand, Charles – rode across the Andes Mountains from Chile into Argentina in 1827.

Brenchley, Billy – starting in 2006, rode through Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania.

Brown, Donald – rode across the Arctic Circle and through Lapland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark in 1953.

Brown, Len - rode through New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri in 1982.

Bruce, Clarence Dalrymple – starting in 1905, rode from Srinagar, Kashmir to Peking, China.

Bruce, James – rode in Abyssinia in 1770.

Bruhnke, Louis – starting in 1988, rode from the bottom of Patagonia to the top of Alaska, via the Darien Gap jungle.

Bull, Bartle – rode in Mongolia and Siberia in 1998.

Büren, Henri de - rode over the Andes Mountains from Peru into Amazonia in 1853.

Burges Watson, Claire- rode from Ulaan Bator, Mongolia, to Samarkand, Uzbekistan in 1999.

Burnaby, Evelyn – rode in England and Scotland in 1892.

Burnaby, Frederick - rode across all of Central Asia, ending up at the Amir's palace at Khiva in 1875. Then, after having avoided the Czar's spies in Constantinople, Burnaby rode across all of Turkey in 1877.

Burton, Sir Richard – starting in 1867, made extensive equestrian journeys in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

Butler, Samuel – rode in New Zealand in 1862.

Byron, Lord - explored the mountainous regions of Albania in 1809.

Callahan, Charles - rode from Esquel, Patagonia to Rincon de Cholila, Argentina in 1970.

Carmignani, Simone – starting in 2000, rode through the Pamir and Karakorum Mountains in Hunza and Baltistan.

Carpini, Friar Giovanni – starting in 1245, rode from Germany to Mongolia and back.

Carruthers, Douglas – starting in 1910, rode through Dzungaria, an ancient Mongolian kingdom which lay between Siberia and Mongolia.

Carson, Susie – rode through China and Tibet in 1897.

Cashner, Tex – rode from Ohio to Texas in 1951.

Cayley, George – rode through Spain in 1852.

Cazade, Jean-Claude – starting in 1982, rode from France to Arabia and back.

Çelebi, Evliya – starting in 1630, rode from Turkey to England.

Chautard, Edouard – rode across New Caldenonia in 2001 and along Australia’s Bicentennial National Trail in 2004.

Chechak, Andy – rode from California to Maine in 1961.

Cherry, Meredith – is the first woman to ride the 48 state route created by the Overland Westerners. She began her journey in 2017.

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley - was a member of the Terra Nova equestrian expedition to Antarctica in 1911.

Child, Theodore – rode across Turkey and Persia in 1892.

Chitty, Jessica – at the age of three, rode from Spain to Greece in 1976 with the aid of her parents.

Claire, Alberta – starting in 1912, rode from from Wyoming to Oregon, south to California, across the deserts of Arizona, and on to New York City.

Clapperton, Hugh – rode across the Sahara Desert, from Tripoli to Sokoto in 1822.

Clark, Keith – rode through Chile in 2003.

Clark, Leonard – rode through Tibet in 1949.

Clifton, John Talbot – died trying to reach Timbukto on horseback in 1928.

Cobbett, William – rode in England in 1830.

Cochrane, John – starting in 1820, rode in Russia and Siberia.

Codman, John – rode through New England in 1888.

Coke, Henry – starting in 1849, rode in the Sandwich Islands, from St. Louis to Oregon Territory and across Spain.

Cooper, Katie - rode across the American Southwest in 2012.

Cooper, Merian C. – rode across the Zagros Mountains and through Persia in 1924.

Cope, Tim – starting in 2004, rode across Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Hungary.

Coquet, Corinne - rode from Paris to Jerusalem in 1973.

Coquet, Evelyne - rode from Paris to Jerusalem in 1973, then rode in Scotland, through the Amazonian rain forest of Brazil to Peru, and from South Africa to Zimbabwe.

Cunliffe Marsh, Hippisley – starting in 1876, rode across the Ottoman Empire, Persia and India.

Cunningham, Jakki – starting in 2006, made multiple journeys across France and England.

Cunninghame Graham, Robert – starting in 1872, rode across the Argentine pampas, from Texas to Mexico, and through the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Cuthbert, Donna and Nic - rode from Bayan-Ulgii aymag, Western Mongolia to Baganuur, Tov aymag, Eastern Mongolia in 2015.

Dalaikhan, Nurbek – rode in Kazakhstan in 2008.

Danos, Jonathan - rode across the Andes Mountains from Chile into Argentina in 1979.

Darling, Malcolm – rode from Peshawar, North West Frontier Province to Jubbulpore, India in 1947.

Darwin, Charles – starting in 1831, rode in South America, Australia and Africa.

Davenport, Homer – rode in the Ottoman Empire in 1906.

Davies, Garry – rode through England and Wales in 1972.

Delavere, Kimberley – rode across Australia in 2017.

Denton, Ivan - rode from Arkansas to California in 1989.

Digaitis, Vaidotas – starting in 2013, rode from the Baltic Sea in Lithuania to the Black Sea in Ukraine. He next completed a journey around the Baltic Sea to the Arctic Circle and back. He also pioneered a route around his native republic of Lithuania.

Dijkstra, Margriet – rode from the Netherlands to Spain in 2006.

Discoli, Eduardo – starting in 2002, made a journey that took him across South, Central and North America, through all of Europe and Turkey, then on to the Middle East.

Dixie, Lady Florence – rode through Patagonia in 1878.

Dodwell, Christina – starting in 1975, rode in China, Iran, New Guinea, Kenya, Siberia and Turkey.

Dodwell, Edward – rode in Greece 1801.

Dolan, Captain Brooke – starting in 1942, rode from India, across the Himalayas, through Tibet and into China.

Dorman, Sarah – rode from Paris, France to Jerusalem in 1988.

Dotchin, Jane – starting in 1985, rode in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Duberly, Fanny – rode through India in 1857.

Ducret, Nicholas - rode from Kazakhstan to Afghanistan in 2011.

Dudding, Alina Grace – starting in 2013, rode the length of the Pacific Crest Trail twice.

Dunnam, Roger – rode from Canada to Kentucky in 1988.

Durang, John – rode through New England in 1825.

Dutra, Hetty – rode in the United States in 1994 and 2014.

Dutreuil de Rhins, Jules – was killed in 1894 while riding to find the source of the Mekong River.

Eckleberg, Mary Ellen – rode from Winnipeg, Canada to New Orleans and back in 1975.

Egenes, John – rode ocean to ocean across the United States in 1974.

Ehlers, Otto – rode from Moulmein, Burma to Poofang, French Tonkin in 1896.

Elliott, Arthur – rode from Scotland to Cornwall in 1955.

Ende, Bernice – starting in 2005, made multiple journeys in the USA and Canada.

Endlweber, Sonja – starting in 2013, rode from Texas to Alaska.

Eng, Jeannette van der – rode from the Netherlands to Spain 2006.

Erickson, William – rode in South America, including through the Darien Gap Jungle, in 1990.

Etherton, Lieutenant Percy – starting in 1909, rode from Kashmir, Gilgit, over the Pamir Mountains, through Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and on into Russian Siberia.

Fairbank, Tom - rode from Washington to Montana in 2011.

Falconer, John – rode across Nigeria in 1911.

Farson, Negley – rode through the Caucasus Mountains in 1929.

Feary, Jayme – rode along the Continental Divide Trail in 2005.

Fields, Fawn – in 1983 at the age of five, rode from Texas to Arizona with the aid of her parents.

Filchner, Wilhelm – rode in Central Asia in 1903 and in Antarctica in 1911.

Fintari, Suellen – rode from Michigan to Alaska 1995.

Firouz, Louise – starting riding in Iran in 1956.

Fischer, Andre – rode from Patagonia to Bolivia in 2004.

Fissenko, Vladimir – starting in 1988, rode from the bottom of Patagonia to the top of Alaska, via the Darien Gap jungle.

Fleming, Peter – rode from Peking, China to Srinigar, Kashmir in 1935.

Folkins, Bonnie – starting in 2008 made multiple journeys in Mongolia and Kazakhstan.

Fox, Ernest – rode through Afghanistan in 1937.

Franconie, Pascale – starting in 1982, rode from France to Arabia and back.

Frankland, Charles Colville – starting in 1830, rode through the Ottoman Empire and Egypt.

Freeman, Lewis – led an expedition through the Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1920.

Fukushima, Baron Yasumasa – starting in 1892, rode from Berlin, Germany, across Siberia and Manchuria, to Tokyo, Japan.

Galwan, Ghulam Rassul – rode through Ladakh and Turkestan in 1890.

Gasseolis, Hugo – starting in 1993, rode from General Madariaga Argentina to New York City, USA.

Gillespie, Lloyd and Isabel – rode around the periphery of South Africa in 2009.

Gillmore, Parker – rode through South Africa in 1879.

Gilmore, James – rode across Mongolia in 1882.

Gist, Christopher – made the first exploration of the Ohio Country in 1750.

Glazier, Willard – made the first known ocean to ocean ride across the United States in 1876.

Goodwin, Joe – rode from Laredo, Texas to Mexico, City in 1931.

Gordon, Cora and Jan - explored Albania on horseback in 1925.

Gottet, Hans-Jürgen and Claudia – starting in 1988, rode from Arabia to the Swiss Alps.

Gouraud, Jean-Louis – rode from Paris to Moscow in 1990.

Gray, Susie – rode from Canterbury, England to Santiago, Spain in 2002.

Greene, Graham – rode in Mexico in 1938.

Guibaut, Andre - attempted to reach Tibet by riding through China’s Yellow River Gorge in 1940.

Hamer, Colleen – rode in the United States in 2011.

Hamilton, Bill – rode from Arizona to Canada in 1973.

Hanbury-Tenison, Robin and Louella – starting in 1984, rode in Albania, China, France, New Zealand and Spain.

Harlan, Josiah – rode from India to Kabul, Afghanistan in 1827.

Harrison, Marguerite – rode across the Zagros Mountains and through Persia in 1924.

Haslund, Henning – starting in 1923, rode in Mongolia, Siberia and Afghanistan.

Hassanein, Sir Ahmed Mohammed – rode through the Libyan Desert in 1923.

Hausleitner, Horst – starting in 2003, rode across Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya.

Haynes, John Wayne – rode from Hudson, Michigan to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2008.

Heath, Frank – starting in 1925, rode to all 48 American states.

Hedin, Sven – starting in 1885, rode in India, Persia,Tibet and Turkestan.

Henchie, Christine – starting in 2006, rode through Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania.

Hengesbaugh, Jeff – rode from Arizona to Canada in 1973.

Herbert, Aubrey – starting in 1900, rode through Anatolia, Arabia, Mesopotamia, the Middle East and the Balkans.

Hietkamp, Eva – rode in France and Spain in 2014.

Hill, Elizabeth – starting in 2007, rode from Germany to Spain and then rode through Great Britain.

Hobhouse, John Cam – rode across Albania in 1809.

Hofstee, Wendy – rode through Ecuador in 1994.

Holt, William – starting in 1965, rode through England, France, Italy, Austria and Germany.

Hooker, Ralph – starting in 1959, made multiple journeys in the United States.

Hopkinson, Arthur and Eleanor – rode in India and Tibet in 1947.

Horiguichi, Robert – rode from Laredo, Texas to Mexico City in 1931.

Huc, Évariste Régis – starting in 1844, rode through China, Tartary and Tibet.

Hüllmandel, Kerstin – starting in 1992, made multiple journeys in Europe and rode from Mönchsondheim, Germany to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Hurst, Hawk – rode from Mexico to Canada in 2010.

Ilmoni, Tony – rode from Kyrgyzstan to Beijing, China in 2008.

Irving, Washington – rode in Spain in 1828.

Jackson, Frederick George – starting in 1893, rode in Australia and the Arctic Circle.

Jacobs, Michel - rode from Amsterdam to St. Petersburg in 2010.

James, Jeremy – starting in 1988, rode across Turkey, Europe and Great Britain.

Jebb, Louisa – rode through the Ottoman Empire, from Constantinople to Baghdad, in 1909.

Johnson, Polly – rode from Anchorage, Alaska to Seattle, Washington in 1967.

Johnson, Stephen – rode from Arizona to Canada in 1973.

Kavanagh. Arthur – though born with only tiny stumps, instead of fully formed arms and legs, starting in 1846 he rode in Egypt, Palestine, Russia, Persia, India and Ireland.

Kempf, Marc – rode across Canada and the United States in 1989.

Khan, Noor Mohammad – rode in Pakistan in 1989.

Kidner, Christopher – rode from Osh, Kyrghizstan to Panjshir, Afghanistan in 2004.

Kikkuli – rode in Assyria in 1345 B.C.

Kinglake, Alexander William – starting in 1835, rode from Serbia to Egypt.

Kino, Father Eusebio – starting in 1687, rode through the unexplored areas of Mexico, Baja California and the Southwest.

Kirouac, Vincent – rode across Canada in 2012.

Kluckhohn, Clyde – rode through Arizona, Utah and New Mexico in 1923.

Knaus, Albert – starting in 1992, made multiple journeys in Europe and rode from Mönchsondheim, Germany to Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Koch, Johan Peter – rode across Greenland in 1912.

Kohmanns, Barbara – Starting in 2002, rode from Ecuador to Mexico.

Kohn, Kareen – starting in 2002, rode in India, Peru and Ecuador.

Kopas, Cliff and Ruth – rode through the Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1933.

Kotwicki, Tadeusz – starting in 1992, rode from Jambyl, Kazakhstan to Moscow, Russia. He also rode from Patagonia to the USA.

Kovačič, Janja – starting in 2002, rode from Uruguay to Bolivia.

Kraus, Orion – rode from Mexico to Costa Rica in 2009.

Krebs, Carl – rode from Irkutsk, Siberia to Peking, China in 1918.

Kudasheva, Alexandra – starting in 1910, twice rode across Siberia. Also rode across Russia and Central Asia.

Labouchere, John – rode in Argentina and Chile in 1991.

Lambie, Thomas – rode in Abyssinia in 1919.

Landerer, Evelyn – rode in Mongolia and Siberia in 2000.

Langford, Pete – rode across New Zealand in 2013.

Langlet, Valdemar – rode in Russia in 1894.

Larssen, Renate – rode from Sweden to Syria in 2007.

Layard, Sir Austen Henry – rode from Montenegro to Persia in 1839.

Leaf, Lucy – starting in 1973, rode across the USA and back.

Leigh, Margaret – rode from Cornwall to Scotland in 1938.

Leite, Filipe – rode from Canada to Brazil in 2012 and from Brazil to Tierra del Fuego in 2017.

Leite, Luis – rode across Mexico in 2013.

Linneaus, Carl – rode through Lapland in 1732.

Liotard, Louis – was killed by bandits while riding through China’s Yellow River Gorge in 1940.

Littlechild, Katrina – rode in England in 2012.

Lloyd, Lynn – rode from Pennsylvania to California in 2008.

Losey, Linda – rode ocean to ocean across the United States in 2005.

Lucas, Alan – rode in Great Britain in 2008.

MacDermott, Hugh – rode in Argentina and Chile in 2005.

MacGahan, Januarius - rode from Fort Perovsky, Russia, across the Kyzil-Kum Desert to Adam-Kurulgan ("Fatal to Men"), Kyrgyzstan in 1873.

MacKiernan, Douglas - starting in 1948, rode through Mongolia, Turkestan and Tibet.

Maddison, Jamie – rode across Kazakhstan 2013.

Maillart, Ella – rode from Peking, China to Srinigar, Kashmir in 1935.

Mannerheim, Baron Carl Gustaf – starting in 1906, rode from Andizhan in Russian Turkestan to Beijing, China.

Marsden, Kate – rode across Russia and Siberia in 1879.

Marshall, Clay – rode across the American Southwest in 2010.

Masarotti, Dario – starting in 1995, made multiple rides in Europe and Russia.

Matschkus, Sabine – starting in 2010, rode through France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia and Spain.

McCutcheon, John – starting in 1906, rode in Turkestan and Siberia.

McCutcheon, Steve – starting in 2005, rode in India, Pakistan and China.

McGrath, Jeanette and Richard – starting in 2010, rode ocean to ocean across the United States.

Meline, Colonel James – rode from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to Santa Fe, New Mexico and back in 1866.

Messurier, Colonel Augustus – rode across Persia in 1879.

Meunier, Louis – starting in 2005, rode in Afghanistan and France.

Michaux, André – starting 1789, rode through the eastern portion of the United States.

Mills, Andi – rode across the American Southwest in 2007.

Moryson, Fynes – starting 1517, rode through Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland and Ireland.

Moser, Henri – starting in 1882, rode from St. Petersburg to Tashkent, then rode on to Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, made his way to Tehran, crossed the Caucasus Mountains and finally emerged at Istanbul.

Muir Watson, Sharon – rode the length of Australia’s Bicentennial National Trail in 1990.

Mullan, Tim – rode in Mongolia in 2013.

Murray, Barry, Barry Jr. Bernadette and Colette – rode the length of the Pacific Crest Trail in 1969.

Nahachewsky, David, Stacia and Teresa – rode across Canada in 2017.

Naysmith, Gordon – starting in 1970, rode across South Africa, Lesotho, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Greece, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria.

Naysmith, Ria Bosman – starting in 1970, rode across South Africa, Lesotho, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya.

Nelson, Walter - rode from Arizona to New Mexico across the Despoblado Desert in 1989.

New, Edie - rode across the American Southwest in 2007.

Norton, Virl – rode from Illinois to Washington DC in 1979.

Nott, Steve – rode around the perimeter of Australia in 1986 and then led two mounted expeditions in Africa.

O’Connor, Stephen – rode from Spain to England in 2002, then made a journey around the perimeter of Ireland in 2012.

O’Hara Bates, Susan – rode from the Mexican border to Canada in 2009.

O’Leary, Caitriona – rode in India in 2007.

Olufsen, Ole – rode through the Pamir Mountains in 1898.

O’Reilly, Basha – in 1995 rode across Russia, Belarus and Poland, then made a journey along the Outlaw Trail.

O’Reilly, CuChullaine – starting in 1987, rode through the North West Frontier Province and led the Karakorum Expedition across Pakistan.

Orton, James – rode through Bolivia in 1876.

Oliver, Justine – rode through Argentina in 2002.

Östrup, Jocham – starting in 1891, rode through Egypt and the Ottoman Empire.

Pagnamenta, Mary – rode across New Zealand in 2002.

Paine, Tracy – starting in 1991, rode from Maine to Florida, across to California and north to Washington.

Park, Mungo – starting in 1795, rode through Gambia and Senegal.

Patterson, George – rode in Tibet and India in 1947.

Pavin, Magali – starting in 2002, rode from France to Central Asia and back.

Perdue, Stan – rode from Georgia to Arizona in 2004.

Peshkov, Dmitri – rode from Blagoveshchensk, Siberia to St. Petersburg, Russia in 1889.

Peterson, Trent – rode from Mexico to Washington along the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017.

Pfeiffer, Ida – rode across Iceland in 1845.

Phillips, Mefo – rode from Canterbury, England to Santiago, Spain in 2002 and from Canterbury, England to Rome, Italy in 2006.

Piecuch, Ray – rode from New Hampshire to California in 1997.

Pinckney, Mike – rode from Mexico to Canada in 2008.

Plumpelly, Raphael – rode across Turkestan in 1903.

Pocock, Roger – rode the Outlaw Trail from Fort MacLeod, Canada to Mexico City in 1891.

Polier, Marc von – rode in the United States in 2010.

Posty, Thierry – starting in 1987, rode in Alaska, Australia, Canada, Cuba, Europe, Japan, Mongolia, South America and South Africa.

Preston, Douglas – rode from Arizona to New Mexico across the Despoblado Desert in 1989.

Prince, Hezekiah – rode across New England in 1793.

Rameaux, Constance – starting in 1982, rode across Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Columbia.

Ransom, Jay – starting in 1912, rode to 48 state capitals in the USA.

Ray, George – rode through the Gran Chaco Jungle of Paraguay in 1917.

Rayne, Raymond - starting in 1912, rode to 48 state capitals in the USA.

Reddaway, William – rode to thirty of Great Britain’s historic cathedrals and abbeys in 2013.

Reynal, Benjamin – rode through Argentina in 1998.

Rhydr, Sea G. – starting in 2012, rode from California to Maine.

Rickert, Hjoerdis – rode across France and Spain in 1986, at the age of nine.

Rijnhart, Petrus – rode through China and Tibet in 1897.

Roberts, Ken – rode the length of Australia’s Bicentennial National Trail in 1990.

Robinson, Daniel – starting in 1997, journeyed across China, Tibet and into India.

Robinson, Ian – starting in 1992, rode in Mongolia, Tibet, Afghanistan and Siberia.

Rock, Joseph – starting in 1920, rode through the border provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan in China.

Rose, W.C. – starting in 1907, rode though Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay and Argentina.

von Rosen, Countess Linde – rode from Stockholm, Sweden to Rome, Italy in 1930.

Rumpl, Margaret – rode from Austria to Spain in 2006.

Russell, Allen – rode from Canada to Mexico in 1975.

Russell, Katie – rode from Washington to Montana in 2011.

Rustenholz, Philippe – rode across Argentina in 2001.

Ruxton, George – rode from Vera Cruz, Mexico to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1846.

Saether, Howard – starting in 2002, rode from Uruguay to Bolivia.

Salzmann, Erich von – rode from Tientsin, China to Tashkent, Uzbekistan 1902.

Saupiquet, Isabelle – starting in 2001, rode in France and Europe.

Savage Landor, Henry – starting in 1893, rode in Japan and Tibet.

Schamber, Pat and Linda – rode ocean to ocean across the United States in 1979.

Schoedsack, Ernest – rode across Persia in 1924.

Schoener, Otto – rode from Kashgar, Turkestan to Srinigar, Kashmir in 1938.

Schwarz, Captain Otto – starting in 1946, rode 48,000 kilometres in Europe, North and South America, Iceland, Scotland and Japan.

Schweiger, Robert – rode from Ilinois to Texas in 1976.

Scott, Quincy and Ella – rode from Minnesota to Washington in 1907.

Scott, Robert Falcon – led the Terra Nova equestrian expedition to Antarctica in 1911.

Seney, Robert – starting in 1976, made multiple journeys in the United States.

Shackleton, Sir Ernest – led the Nimrod equestrian expedition in Antarctica in 1907.

Shamsuddin, Hadji – rode across Afghanistan in 2005.

Shaw, Robert – starting in 1868, rode from Ladakh, across the Karakorum Mountains, into Turkestan.

Shoji, Professor Takeshi – rode across Japan in 1984.

Shor, Jean and Frank - rode across the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to Gilgit, Pakistan in 1949.

Sigurdsson, Vigfus – rode across Greenland in 1912.

Singh, Giyan – starting in 1909, rode from Kashmir, north to Gilgit, across the Pamir Mountains, through Turkistan, Mongolia and into Siberia.

Skifter, Gorm - rode across the Arctic Circle and through Lapland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark in 1953.

Skrede, Wilfred – rode across Turkestan and into India in 1941.

Slade, Daniel Denison – rode across New England in 1883.

Smeaton Chase, Joseph – rode from Mexico to Oregon and across the Mojave Desert in 1911.

Smith, Lt. Cornelius – rode from Fort Wingate, Arizona to Fort Sam Houston, Texas in 1895.

Somerset Maugham, William – rode across Spain in 1898.

Southey, Sam – rode in Mongolia in 2013.

Spizzo, Antonietta – starting in 1995, made multiple rides in Europe and Russia.

Spleiss, Chantal – starting in 2003, made multiple rides in Europe.

Stebbing, Edward Percy – rode across Great Britain in 1937.

Stein, Esther – starting in 2003, rode across Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya.

Stevens, Thomas – rode across Russia in 1890.

Stewart, Lisa - rode through New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri in 1982.

Strandberg. Mikael – rode across Patagonia in 2002.

Strong, Anna Louise – rode through the Pamir Mountains and across Tadjikistan in 1928.

Suttle, Gill – rode across Syria in 2005.

Swale Pope, Rosie – rode through Chile in 1984.

Swift, Jonathan – rode across Ireland in 1725.

Sykes, Ella – rode across the Ottoman Empire, Persia and India in 1894.

Szesciorka, Samantha – rode through America's Outback, the desolate desert country of Nevada, in 2016.

Tanner, Diamond Dick – rode from Nebraska to New York and back in 1893.

Thomas, Carine – rode across New Caldenonia in 2001 and along Australia’s Bicentennial National Trail in 2004.

Thompson, Catherine – starting in 2008, made multiple journeys across Western Canada.

Thurlow Craig, Charles – starting in 1920, rode across the Gran Chaco Jungle in Paraguay and Brazil.

Tolstoy, Count Ilia - starting in 1942, rode from India, across the Himalayas, through Tibet and into China.

Traver, Matt – rode across Kazakhstan 2013.

Trinkler, Emil – rode across Afghanistan in 1920.

Tschiffely, Aimé – starting in 1925, rode across Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States.

Tsutsumi, Hideyo – rode across Japan in 1971.

Tucker, Luke – rode across France and England in 2006.

Tugler, Marie-Emmanuelle – rode across Brazil and Bolivia in 2002.

Turner, Penny – starting in 2004, made multiple rides through Greece.

Ure, Sir John – rode in Chile and Argentina in 1973

Vasconcellos, Raul and Margarita – starting in 1987, rode across the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

Verdaasdonk, Ingrid – rode in Spain and France in 2014.

Vickers, Simon – rode through Brazil in 2001.

Vischer, Sir Hanns – rode across the Sahara Desert, from Tripoli, Tunisia to Lake Chad in 1906.

Vision, DC - starting in 1991, rode from Maine to Florida, across to California, north to Washington and east to Missouri.

Walchuk, Stan - rode from Alberta, Canada into Alaska in 1982.

Wallace, Harold – starting in 1910, rode from Shanghai, China to London, England.

Wamser, Günter – starting in 1994, rode from Patagonia to Alaska.

Waridel, Catherine – rode from the Crimea to Karakorum in Mongolia in 1995.

Watson, Claire Burges – rode from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to Samarkand, Uzbekistan in 1999.

Wauters, Robert – made multiple journeys in Europe in the 1990s.

Weale, Magdalene – rode in Great Britain in 1934.

Weeks, Edwin Lord - rode across Turkey and Persia in 1892.

Wegener, Alfred – rode in Greenland in 1912.

Wentworth Day, James – rode in England in 1942.

Westarp, Eberhard von – rode across the Ottoman Empire and Persia in 1913.

White, Iain - rode from Brisbane to Melbourne in Australia in 1982.

Wild, Frank – was a member of the Nimrod equestrian expedition in Antarctica in 1907.

Wilde, Oscar – rode in Greece in 1890.

Wilder, Jim and Janine – made multiple journeys in the United States in the early 2000s.

Wilkins, Mesannie – rode from Maine to California in 1952.

Wilson, Andrew – rode through the Himalaya Mountains from Ladakh to Afghanistan in 1873.

Windt, Harry de – rode across Persia and Baluchistan in 1890.

Winter, Mike – rode in the USA in 2001.

Witz, Marc - rode across Brazil and Bolivia in 2002.

Wonfor, Peter - rode from Chipinge, Zimbabwe to Mbeya, Tanzania in 1990.

Wood , Lisa – rode ocean to ocean across the United States in 1993.

Wood Gee, Vyv and Elsa – rode from John ‘Groats, Scotland, to Land’s End, Cornwall in 2007.

Wooldridge, Howard – starting in 2002, rode ocean to ocean across the United States, in both directions.

Yamakawa, Kohei – rode across Japan in 2014.

Yavorski, Deb – rode ocean to ocean across the United States in 2011.

Young, Arthur – starting in 1776, rode in Ireland, England and France.

Younghusband, George – rode across Burma in 1887.

Zvansov, Vasili - starting in 1948, rode through Mongolia, Turkestan and Tibet.

Zemuun, Temuujin – rode in Mongolia in 2008.