Equestrian Travel Timeline - the early 20th Century
Year |
Name of Rider |
Details |
Miles
|
1902 |
Erich von Salzmann |
Through Central Asia
from Peking to Berlin. |
5,000 |
1903 |
M D Wenyon |
Across Siberia. |
? |
1905 |
Alex Sweet & Armoy Knox |
Through Texas |
? |
1907 |
Quincy & Ella Scott |
St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington, on “broncos named Hike
& Hobo.” |
2,300 |
1907 |
Daniel Bruun |
Through Iceland. |
? |
1909 |
Bud and Temple Abernathy (aged 9 and 5, traveling alone) | Frederick, Oklahoma, to Santa Fe, New Mexico and back, on "Sam Bass, an Arab and Geronimo, a half-Shetland pony." |
1,200 |
1909 |
John Anderson |
Through the wilds of Brazil. |
? |
1910 |
Alexandra Kudacheva |
Harbin, China to St Petersburg, Russia, in 500 days. |
9,500 |
1910 |
Nan Jane Aspinwall |
San Francisco, California to New York, USA |
4,500 |
1910 |
Bud and Temple Abernathy (aged 10 and 6, traveling alone) | Cross Roads, Oklahoma, to New York City, on "Sam Bass, an Arab and a red and white Pinto pony named Wylie Haynes." |
|
1911 |
Bud and Temple Abernathy (aged 11 and 7, traveling alone) | Coney Island, New York to Golden Gate Park, California, in 62 days, on "Sam Bass, an Arab and a red and white Pinto pony named Wylie Haynes." |
|
1911 |
J. Smeaton Chase |
El Monte, California to Smith River Corners, Oregon, on a “Nevada
range pony named ‘Chino’.” |
1,000 |
1911 |
J.D. Falconer |
Through Cameroon, Nigeria and the Sudan. |
? |
1912 |
The Overland Westerners |
(George and Charlie Beck, Jay Ransom, Raymond Rayne).
Through all lower 48 states of the USA.
One horse, a Morab gelding named Pinto, completes the entire trip. |
20,352 |
1913 |
Walter Harris |
“The longest ride with one horse in Australian history.” |
? |
1913 |
Eberhard Joachim, Duke of Westarp |
Through Turkey and Persia. |
? |
1917 |
G.
W. Ray |
Through the Chaco Indian territory of Paraguay on “native horses,
small, wiry and wild”. |
1,000 |
1917 |
A.
C. Veatch |
From Quito, Ecuador to Bogota, Columbia. |
750 |
1919 |
Dr Thomas Lambie |
Through Abyssinia on a “Gallas gelding named Biru.” |
2,000 |
1922 |
C.H. Prodger |
Through Bolivia. |
? |
1923 |
Clyde Kluckhohn |
Through the American Southwest on an “Arizona bronco named Pronto.” |
2,500 |
1925 |
Aimé Tschiffely |
Buenos Aires, Argentina to Washington, DC on “Criollo geldings named
Mancha and Gato”. |
10,000 |
1926 |
Mary Roberts Rineheart |
Through the Egyptian desert. |
? |
1928 |
Anna Strong |
Through the Pamir Mountains of Kirghizistan on an “Iomud stallion
named Alai”. |
500 |
1929 |
Negley Farson |
Utsch Kalan, Karachay to Batalpaschinsk, Russia via the Caucasian
mountains on “two Tartar horses named Kolya & Marusha.” |
250 |
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