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International magazine coverage of The Long Riders' Guild and equestrian travel books!

Click on picture to read the story of how best-selling author, Douglas Preston, and famous photographer, Walter Nelson, became Long Riders when they followed in the hoofprints of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, who led the first European expedition in search of the fabled "seven cities of gold."  This article appeared in the July 2008 edition of Horse Connection magazine.
Australia's equestrian magazine, Hoofbeats, publishes a great story about Long Rider Tim Cope.  Click on picture to read the article.
Click on picture to read a feature about Long Rider Roger Pocock in Wild West magazine.
Click on picture to read an article about how Long Rider Roger Pocock made the only journey down the Outlaw Trail from Canada to Mexico in 1899 - and visited all the outlaw hideouts along the way.  This article was featured in I. M. Cowgirl magazine.
Click on picture to read an excellent article about Long Rider Tim Cope's 6,000 mile journey from Mongolia to Hungary in the hoof-prints of Genghis Khan.  After being named Australia's "Adventurer of the Year," Australian Geographic published this record-breaking article.
Click on picture to read an article about, Basha O'Reilly as she discusses her work as a publisher, author, webmaster and Founder Member of The Long Riders' Guild in the exciting new magazine, I. M. Cowgirl.
Thanks to research provided by The Long Riders' Guild Academic Foundation, Tom Moates, the world's leading equestrian investigative journalist, has completed a ground-breaking article.  Why we don't eat Horses explains the forgotten religious rivalry between the Vikings and the Vatican which led to this taboo.  

Click on picture to read this astonishing article, published in Horse Connection.

No one told the Brazilian grandfather, Pedro Luiz de Aguiar, that at the age of seventy he was too old to ride into the history books.  Besides, he wouldn't have believed them.  Instead he mounted his Manga Larga stallion and rode 18,000 miles through Latin America. 

Click on picture to read an article about this incredible Long Rider.

It took more than five years of diligent research for The Long Riders' Guild to document the inspiring story of "Two-Gun" Nan Aspinwall.  Here for the very first time is the epic tale of the first woman to strap on a six-gun, mount her horse and ride Ocean to Ocean alone!

Click on picture to read this amazing story, published in I. M. Cowgirl.

Click on picture to read an excellent article about The Overland Westerners, the Long Riders who made the longest equestrian journey in the 20th century.  It was published in the Paint Horse Journal.

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