Equestrian Travel Timeline - 1976 to 1979
Year |
Name of Rider |
Details |
Miles
|
1976 |
Stephane
Bigo
|
Istanbul, Turkey to Kabul, Afghanistan on “an Arabian gelding
Oudjanole.” |
5,500 |
1976 |
Tom
Davis
|
El Paso, Texas to Fairbanks, Alaska, USA on “Trashy & Freckles.” |
4,500 |
1976 |
Colonel Peter Langstaff and Margo Atwood | Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Tillamook, Oregon, on "an Arab stallion named Gebig and a Morgan gelding called Cambridge Drifter." |
3,679 |
1976 |
Adrianne
Cooper
|
Through the USA. |
2,000 |
1976 |
R.J.
Schweiger
|
Chicago, Illinois to Oklahoma City, USA on “three Tennessee Walkers
named Stormy, Frosty & John.” |
1,200 |
1976 |
Evelyne
Coquet
|
Through the Amazonian rain forest of Brazil to Peru. |
? |
1976 |
Lucy Leaf | From the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas to Northern Virginia via the Deep South on Igor, "a 16.1 bay horse likely of mixed blood." | |
1977 |
Pierre
Peysson
|
Chattanooga, Tennessee to California, USA. |
2,000 |
1977 |
Richard
Barnes
|
Through Wales, Scotland and England on a “Cob gelding named Remus.” |
1,100 |
1977 |
Jean-Francois
Ballereau
|
Through France on a “horse named Landais.” |
? |
1978 |
Christian
Lile
|
Through twelve European countries on “Filochard & Irene.” |
6,200 |
1978 |
Jean-Francois
Ballereau
|
From Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide with “an Appaloosa
named Marquise and a pony named Nestor.” |
2,500 |
1978 |
Allan
& Cher Maybee
|
Boonville, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, via the Santa Fe
Trail, on “two Arabs named Regent and Cimarron.” |
1,100 |
1978 |
Evelyne
Coquet
|
Through the Highlands of Scotland with her husband, Caddy, and their new
baby. |
? |
1979 |
Emile
Brager & Marie Roesle
|
Through Europe. |
6,250 |
1979 |
Stephane
Bigo
|
Denver, Colorado, USA to Guatemala on “an American saddle horse
gelding named Omobono.” |
6,000 |
1979 |
Pat
& Linda Schamber
|
Lewes, Delaware to Point Reyes, California, USA on an “Arab mare named
Mara and a Quarter horse mare named Sandy.” |
3,000 |
1979 |
Jean-Francois
Ballereau
|
Through Arizona and Navajo land with “an Appaloosa named Marquise and
a pony named Nestor.” |
1,000 |
1979 |
Virl
Norton
|
Effingham, Illinois to Washington DC, USA, on two Arabs. |
1,000 |
Early | 1879-1900 | 1901-29 | 1930-49 | 1950-69 | 1970-75 | 1976-79 | 1980-85 | 1986-89 | 1990-95 | 1995-2001 |
Click here to see the world's largest collection of Equestrian Travel Books! |
The Long Riders' Guild - Formed for those men, women, and horses who know the roads of the world by heart!