Equestrian Timeline

The Long Riders' Guild

Equestrian Travel Timeline - 1971 to 1975

Year	Name of Rider	Details	Miles
1970	Gordon Naysmith	South Africa to Austria	13,000
1970	Ria Bosman	Maseru, Lesutho, to Kenya	4,500
1971	Alberto Barretta	Paisandu, Uruguay to Oaxaca, Mexico, on “two Criollo horses named Queguay and Charrua.”	11,000
1972	Dennis Botterill	Esperance, West Australia to Natalia, Victoria, Australia on “two Brumbies named Dancer and Dusty.”	5,300
1972	Dan Seymour	Cooktown, Queensland to Healesville, Victoria, Australia along the Bicentennial National Trail.	5,000
1972	Diane Jeans & Margaret King	Santa Cruz, Bolivia to Asuncion, Paraguay on "two unshod local stallions."	1,000
1973	Evelyne & Corinne Coquet	Paris, France to Jerusalem, Palestine on “French Provencal geldings named Mickey and Donald.”	4,500
1973	Diana Siderides, Sally Howell & Debbie Parker	Morrisville, New York, to Ventura, California, USA on “Okie, Collar Bars and a pinto mare.”	3,000
1973	Jeff Hengesbaugh	Phoenix, Arizona, USA to Banff, Canada	1,300
1973	Gary Davies	Through England and Wales on a “chestnut gelding named Dandi.”	1,000
1973	John Ure	Santiago, Chile across the Andes mountains.	?
1973	Karla Edmunds & Lucy Leaf	Bethel, Maine to Jordan, Montana, USA.	2,000
1974	Lucy Leaf	Missoula, Montana to the Pacific Ocean in Northern Oregon and then down the coast to Northern California on Igor, a "mixed breed."	2,000
1974	John Egenes	Ventura, California to Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA on a “Quarter horse gelding named Gizmo.”	3,650
1974	Donald Stein	Leighton, Pennsylvania to San Diego, California, USA on “a docile grade gelding named J.P.”	3,000
1974	Lynne Curtis	Minneapolis, Minnesota to San Francisco, California, USA on two horses “the Old Man and Tasche Bagdad.”	2,200
1974	Mike Butler	Canada to Colorado on “Smokey”.	1,500
1974	Rachel Murphy	Six-year-old Rachel accompanies her mother, travel writer Dervla Murphy, to northern Pakistan. Rachel spends the winter riding through the Karakorum mountains from Thowar to Manzi Gone, Baltistan, on “a local pony named Hallam.”	200
1975	Lucy Leaf	From the Sierra Nevada range across Death Valley to Phoenix, Arizona and on to El Paso, Texas, on Igor, a "mixed breed."
1975	Mary Ellen Eckelberg	Winnipeg, Canada to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and back, on an “Arab stallion named Sahnson.”	6,400
1975	Allan & Cher Maybee	Scottsbluff, Nebraska to Oregon City, USA on “Arabs named Sheik and Indregal.”	2,200
1975	Allen Russell	Flathead River, Canada to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on a “Quarter horse named Kono.”	2,000
1975	Hawk Greenway	Mad River, California to Wenatchee, Washington, USA on a “15 year old bay mare named Fatima.”	1,200
1975	Christina Dodwell	Nairobi, Kenya to the Omo River, Ethiopia on a “dun ranch horse named Zen.”	1,000