The Long Riders' Guild

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

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