Cure found for Deadly African Disease which kills Long Rider Horses,
Back in 2003 two European Long Riders set off to make a heroic ride across the African continent. The intrepid duo rode across South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Rwanda and finally into Kenya. They traversed deserts and were attacked by mobs. But only two days away from completing their journey, one of their horses died without warning. Thanks to news from a South African horseman, the mystery of the horse’s death has been solved and a possible cure for this deadly disease may have been found.

Mounted Explorers Search for Adventure
Equestrian travel continues to grow at an astonishing rate, with more expeditions having been completed, and a record number of new journeys now being planned in various parts of the globe.

Meeting a Long Rider Legend
The LRG's valuable collection of exciting and informative Stories from the Road has grown with the publication of one of the most moving accounts ever written regarding the emotional turmoil a Long Rider feels after returning to "civilization." We are also proud to publish two special stories regarding Long Rider legend, Robert Seney. The retired US cavalryman racked up more than 24,000 miles during his various rides across America. During one of those journeys he met, and inspired, a young man who was half-way through his own trip. The moving account of this Long Rider meeting, as well as Seney’s tips on equestrian travel, are now on-line.

Journey inspires Art
During his recent ride from Hudson, Michigan to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Long Rider John Wayne Haynes was observed by noted portrait painter, Dee Beard Dean. The result was a lovely portrait of the traveller and his horses.

Long Riders in the News
The world’s press continues to be fascinated by Members of the Guild, their remarkable journeys and their trusty mounts. Here are links to new Internet and magazine articles about Long Riders from around the world.

Equestrian Wisdom and Long Rider Lore
The Long Riders Guild Press is proud to announce the publication of several important and rare new books in both the Equestrian Wisdom and History Series and the Equestrian Travel Classic collections.

At Freedom's Door, by Malcolm Darling, tells the noteworthy tale of how the author set off to ride 1,400 miles across India on the eve of the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. This was an India, still smiling, but eager for freedom.

Thanks to his tolerance and insight, Darling was able to describe far more than the dusty plains, great rivers and mighty mountains which the average traveller would have noted. Instead Rajput and Sikhs confided in him, while Muslims and Hindus provided him with shelter and secrets. Using his horse as the key to each village, Darling noted the size of the fields, as well as the fear of the future. Read more....

Also available is Equus - The Natural History of the Horse, the most important equestrian wisdom book written in the first half of the 19^th century. An English soldier turned scientist, Charles Hamilton Smith, consulted, translated and transcribed every type of original texts, including works in Greek, Latin, Arabic and many Oriental sources. The result was a book which became the principal authority of its age. No topic was off-limits. An early genetic examination of curly haired horses in Columbia was presented. Eyewitnesses were interviewed who had seen wild sultan-stallions attacking predators in Central Asia. Yet the mounted author’s most astonishing accomplishment was the careful documentation of more than a hundred ancient and extinct breeds, including the Katschenstzi of Tartary, a shining black horse with a white mane and the Sardinian wild horse, an indigenous animal not imported by man. Read more...

Support the Work of the Long Riders’ Guild
Meanwhile, the LRGAF is appealing for help to pay for the ground-breaking activities undertaken over the last eight years by The Guild and the Foundation. All donations will be gratefully received, but any person donating $100 or more may choose any of the books already published in the Horse Travel Books or Classic Travel Books Collections, or The Equestrian Wisdom and History Series. Anybody donating $1,000 or more will enable The Long Riders' Guild Press to publish another book, which will be dedicated to the donor. As the Dalai Lama said, "We may have the impression that the main beneficiaries of the practice of compassion are those on the receiving end; that the practice of compassion is relevant only for those concerned about others and irrelevant for those who are not, because its main benefit goes to others. This is a mistake. The immediate benefit of practising compassion is actually experienced by the practitioner." You can also demonstrate your support by buying a T-shirt.

Winter 2008

The Long Riders' Guild News Archive - thousands of articles about Long Riders are now available for the first time in history. The basis of this extraordinary collection was begun more than fifty years ago by North American Long Rider and Founding Member of The Guild, Pat Schamber.

A BBC-TV programme has been broadcast about Long Rider Robert (Don Roberto) Cunninghame Graham. He was the author of travel books, a biography, eleven histories of Latin America and fourteen volumes of short stories and sketches. Click here for more information about the show.

Historical Long Rider "Two-Gun Nan" Aspinwall has been nominated for the Cowgirl Hall of Fame.

Several expeditions completed, and new ones planned.

We would like to welcome the following new Members to The Long Riders' Guild: Jeff Foster, SuSan Small Hammer, Mick Thompson and Rocky Woolman, and Associate Members Elaine Lockwood and Gary Ziegler. They can all be found on the appropriate Members pages.

The Long Riders' Guild Press has republished two more books by Aimé Tschiffely - the enchanting "Little Princess Turtle Dove," written for children, and "Round and about Spain." The latter proves once and for all that there was more, much more, to the famous Long Rider than his ride from Buenos Aires to Washington. Soon after the end of the Second World War Aimé accepted an invitation to explore Spain. The resulting book was published only two years before his death.

Part II of Whisper on the Wind, the amazing story of Tom Bass, has been published in Horse Connection magazine!

Over on the LRGAF website you will find the results of a fascinating scientific study in Britain, published in The Daily Telegraph, which proves that horses can recognise individual neighs and match them to faces.

Long Rider Laurence Bougault has published an excellent book about stallions, "Chevaux Entiers et Étalons."

More than a year after completing his epic journey from Mongolia to Hungary, Long Rider Tim Cope has been reunited with his faithful dog, Tigon.

Long Rider Rosie Swayle Pope has completed her solo run around the world!

New Long Rider Art.

Summer 2008

Thanks to The Guild’s international network of contacts, the most notorious living equestrian travel outlaw is prevented from riding his horses to death!

In response to tremendous demand, The Guild has decided to provide Long Riders' Guild T-shirts.

More pictures for the “Shadows and Ears” page!

CuChullaine O'Reilly is interviewed on the Stall-13 radio show regarding the work of the LRG, the LRGAF and the books in the Horse Travel Books collection. This programme will be repeated on the Internet until 24th August and can be heard from all over the world.

New articles about Long Riders in magazines and on the Internet.

The Long Riders' Guild is proud to announce the discovery of the two hundredth Historical Long Rider. Arthur Kavanagh rode from Russia to India, even though he was born without arms or legs!

New: links to Disabled Riding and Driving Programmes.

New books by and about Long Riders.

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