Historical Long Riders
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Bud and Temple Abernathy - made three Long Rides alone in the United States in 1909, 1910 and 1911 when they were children.
Queen Christina Alexandra - in 1632 rode from Sweden to Rome, where she was greeted by the Pope.
Count Vittorio Alfieri was an Italian aristocrat who had three passions in life – liberty, literature and horses.
President Chester Arthur – mounted up and spent a month exploring Yellowstone by horseback.
Francis Asbury - from 1776 rode an average of 6000 miles a year.
Nan Jane Aspinwall - rode from the Pacific to the Atlantic alone starting in September 1910
Mikhail Asseyev - rode from Kiev, Ukraine, to the newly-built Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1889.
Ann Bailey - made many Long Rides in Virginia during the late 18th century on her horse "Liverpool."
Richard St. Barbe Baker - rode across New Zealand in 1963 at the age of 74.
Jean-François Ballereau - made a series of rides in Europe and North America
August Barke - Rode from Essen-Ruhr to Asia and Europe, starting on 1st July 1928.
Daisy Bates - rode three thousand miles across the Outback in the 1880s.
John and Lulu Beard - made a 2,500 mile odyssey from Oregon to Missouri.
Princess Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso - made an eleven month equestrian journey through Turkey, Syria and Palestine in 1852.
Dr. John Bell - journeyed from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Peking, China in 1717.
Ana Beker - inspired by Aimé Tschiffely, rode from Argentina to Canada.
Irene Benjamin - undertook extended equestrian journeys in America and Australia in the 1990s.
Charles Bernheimer led an equestrian expedition in 1923 across the United States.
Frank Bessac - rode in Mongolia, Western China and Tibet in 1950.
Captain J. J. Best - explored Albania on horseback in 1838.
Isabella Bird - made extensive journeys from 1873 onwards in Hawaii, the Rockies, Japan, Iran and Tibet.
Lady Anne Blunt, and her husband, Wilfred Scawen Blunt journeyed into northern Arabia and the Nejd desert in search of pure-bred Arabian horses in 1878.
A. W. Du Bois - according to a New York Times article written in 1911, the Long Rider had recently made a 2,000 mile solo equestrian journey across Persia.
Sir Francis Bond Head - in 1825 rode across the Pampas and crossed the Andes mountains into Chile
Gabriel Bonvalot - made a journey between Paris and Tonkin in French Indochina in 1889.
Edward Borien - made a trip through several Western Statesin 1901.
George Borrow – (1803 – 1881) - English author who travelled extensively and wrote prolifically.
Mary Bosanquet - rode alone from Vancouver, Canada more than 2,500 miles to New York city in 1939.
Catherine de Bourboulon - rode with her husband from Shanghai to Moscow in 1859.
Eileen Bowdage - undertook an extended journey across England during the Second World War.
Donald Brown and Gorm Skifter - rode through the Arctic in 1954.
Major Clarence Dalrymple Bruce - rode from Srinagar to Peking in the 1950s.
Tex Bunteen followed the call to adventure in 1939, when he decided to join his friend, Nick Beucher, on a 1400 mile journey from Texas to Mexico City.
Evelyn Burnaby was the younger brother of the famous English Long Rider Colonel Frederick Burnaby. Whereas the elder brother was famous for having ridden across Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire, Evelyn set off in 1892 to ride from Land’s End, Cornwall to John O’Groats, Scotland.
Colonel Frederick Burnaby - made two remarkable journeys across Asia in the 1870s.
Isabel Burton - rode across the jungles of Brazil in 1867 and across the deserts of Syria 1870.
Sir Richard Burton - made extensive equestrian journeys in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
Lord Byron - explored the mountainous regions of Albania on horseback in 1809.
Brian Callahan - Rode from Esquel, Patagonia, across Argentina to Rincon de Cholila in search of Butch and Sundance.
Guillaume Capus - made two historic rides across Central Asia in 1880 and 1886.
George Cardinet Jr. - the father of the modern American trails system, rode nearly a thousand miles from northern Mexico through to California.
Brother John de Plano Carpini - rode from Frankfurt, Germany to Karakorum, Mongolia and back in the late 1200s.
Douglas Carruthers - rode from Siberia through 5,000 miles of trackless forest to China, via Dzungaria.
George Cayley - rode across Spain, one of the most romantic countries in the world, in 1852.
Evliya Çelebi - rode in Europe, Asia and Africa in the mid-1600s.
Olive Murray Chapman - rode in Iceland, Cyprus and Madagascar, and crossed the Arctic Circle in Lapland.
Daniel Chodowiecki, a renowned 18th century Polish artist who rode from Berlin
to Gdansk.Alberta Claire - made an 8,000 mile journey from Wyoming to Oregon, south to California, across the deserts of Arizona, and on to a triumphant arrival in New York City in 1912 .
Hugh Clapperton – rode from Tripoli in 1822 to Sokoto, the capital of the Fula Empire.
Leonard Clark - led a mounted expedition of Torgut tribesmen into Tibet in 1949.
Thomas Clarkson - Starting in 1787, spent seven years in the saddle, riding an estimated 35,000 miles throughout Great Britain, while lecturing on the evils of slavery.
Joseph Clements - Rode from Kharkov, in the Ukraine, to Novorossisk on the Black Sea in 1919.
William Cobbett - in the early 1820s set out on horseback to make a series of personal tours through the English countryside.
John Codman made many equestrian journeys through New England during the winter of 1887 when he was in his seventies.
Henry J. Coke - rode from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean in 1849, then joined George Cayley to explore the majority of Spain on horseback
.Hermann Constan - made extensive equestrian journeys in Outer Mongolia between 1907 and 1913.
Merian C. Cooper - the creator of the original film, “King Kong”, rode alongside the nomads from the Persian Gulf to the pastures on the far side of the Zagros Mountains in 1925 and made the film "Grass"..
Charles Cottu - rode from Paris, France to Vienna, Austria and back in 1899.
Lady Elizabeth Craven - made a perilous journey across Europe in 1783.
Wilbur Cummings - set off in 1938 to ride from the Indian town of Kalimpong, over the Himalayan mountains, to the Tibetan city of Gyantse.
Robert Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936) made Long Rides through North and South America
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, set off in 1894 to ride 3,200 kilometres across Afghanistan and into the unexplored Pamir mountains.
Major Sam Dale - Dale made an extremely hazardous equestrian journey in 1815 from Georgia to New Orleans.
Malcolm Lyall Darling - made a remarkable equestrian journey in the winter of 1946 when he rode from Peshawar, more than a thousand miles across India, to Jubbulpore, at the dawn of Partition.
Charles Darwin - during his famous scientific journey around the world, he took every opportunity to explore the continents of South America, Australia and Africa on horseback.
Gary Davies - Rode through 22 counties of England and Wales in 1972.
Lady Florence Dixie - made many journeys in Patagonia in, starting in 1879.
Maynard Dixon - made a trip through several Western States in 1901.
Edward Dodwell - rode through Greece in 1801.
Brook Dolan rode from India to China across Tibet in 1940.
Fanny Duberly - rode more than two thousand miles through the deserts of India in 1857 during the suppression of the Sepoy Revolt.
Jane Duncan - rode from Srinagar, Kashmir, to Goma Hanu, Tibet and back in 1904.
John Duncan was a Scotsman who set off on horseback in 1844 in search of West Africa’s mysterious Kong mountains.
Otto Ehlers - rode from Moulmein, Burma to Poofang, French Tonkin in 1891-1892.
Elizabeth I of England - made many journeys across England circa 1580, often as far afield as Suffolk and Devon.
Master Robert Eracles - journeyed from the Middle East to Mongolia in 1243, whereupon Genghis Khan enlisted the linguistically talented Eracles as a diplomat.
Lieutenant Percy Etherton - rode from Chitral, in India’s North West Frontier Province, to Russian Siberia,
Negley Farson - explored the Western Caucasus mountains in 1929.
Jean Paul Ferrier - rode from Tehran, Iran to Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1845.
Celia Fiennes - rode from Land's End, Cornwall, England, to Aitchison Bank, Scotland in 1697.
Louise Firouz - travelled widely in her adopted homeland of Iran.
Eugène Napoléon Flandin (1809 – 1889) was an archaeologist who explored Persia in 1839
Henry N. Flynt - took his daughter and son on a horseback journey from Connecticut to Canada in 1935.
Ernest Fox - in 1937 spent a year riding across Afghanistan.
Captain Charles Colville Frankland - set off in 1827 to explore the Ottoman Empire and Egypt.
Lewis Freeman led a major equestrian expedition across the Canadian Rockies in 1925.
Baron Yasumasa Fukushima rode from Berlin, Germany to Vladivostok, Russia in 1892.
Charles Wellington Furlong (1874-1967) crossed Patagonia from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Prince Galatzin of Russia made a 12,000 mile ride through Russia, Turkestan and Tibet between 1890 and 1893.
Thora Gauthier was one of the three “Rangerettes” who rode from Erie, Pennsylvania to Banning, California in 1962/1963.
Friedrich Gerstacker - rode across the Cordillera Mountains from Argentina to Chile in the winter of 1850.
Parker Gillmore - in April, 1879 rode alone from Cape Town, South Africa, into the heart of the African continent.
James Gilmour - spent twenty-one years exploring Mongolia on horseback.
Christopher Gist (1706–1759) twice saved George Washington's life.
Willard Glazier - rode from New York state to the Pacific in 1875 on his horse, Paul Revere.
Harry Gluckman rode from Buenos Aries, Argentina to Valparaíso, Chile in March, 1904.
Joseph Goodwin and Robert Horiguichi made a journey from Texas to Mexico City in 1931.
Cora and Jan Gordon - explored Albania on horseback in 1925..
Graham Greene - made an equestrian journey into the jungles of Mexico .
Marguerite Harrison - joined a band of Bakhtiari nomads in 1925 to make a film with Marion C. Cooper.
Frank Heath - rode to all 48 states within the continental United States.
Henning Haslund. - reached Mongolia in 1923 and discovered a lost equestrian world left largely untouched since the Middle Ages.
Sir Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein - led a small camel caravan on a remarkable seven month journey across the centre of Libya in 1923 .
Christine Henchie - was on a journey, with William Brenchley, from the northernmost part of Africa to the southernmost point. She was killed in a terrible accident on the roads of Tanzania.
Aubrey Herbert - a renowned traveller who set out at the beginning of the 20th century to explore Anatolia, Arabia, Mesopotamia, the Middle East and the Balkans.
John Cam Hobhouse rode with Lord Byron across Albania in 1809.
William Holt - made a 9,000 mile trek across Europe with his horse Trigger in 1964.
Arthur Hopkinson - rode across the Himalayas in 1947.
Eleanor Hopkinson - in 1947 made a month’s tour of the Tibetan administrative centres of Shi-gatse, Gyantse and Sakya to tell them that the British were gone and thenceforth they would be dealing with an independent India.
Countess Helen Hohenau - Rode from Munich to Rome, where she was greeted by the Pope, in 1950.
John Howard - made seven long rides which totalled an astonishing 80,000 kilometres.
Washington Irving - spent seventeen years in the mid 19th century travelling, riding and writing in Europe.
Louisa Jebb - set out to cross the Turkish Empire on horseback in the early years of the 20th century.
Mountenay Jephson - rode through feudal Japan in 1869.
Lewis Jones (Llwyd Ap Iwan) - made extensive equestrian journeys in Patagonia in the 1890s, before being murdered.
Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh - in spite of being born with no limbs, rode overland from Cairo across the deserts to Lebanon, and then from Circassia via Persia to India.
Lieutenant A. H. Kenike – rode 4,300 miles from Chita, Siberia to St. Petersburg, Russia.
Alexander William Kinglake - rode from Serbia to Egypt in 1835.
Clyde Kluckhohn - rode through the stony wastes of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico in the early years of the 20th century in search of a geographic legend, “The Rainbow Bridge.”
Cliff and Ruth Kopas- rode through the Canadian Rockies in 1933.
Tadeusz Kotwicki completed several remarkable rides.
Karl Krebs - rode from Siberia to Peking in 1918.
Peter Kropotkin, rode across Siberia from Irkutsk to Kyakhta in 1864.
Thomas Lambie arrived in Abyssinia in 1919, and was called to ride through the mountainous countryside to visit one of the local kings, His Majesty Ras Tafari (afterwards to be crowned Emperor Haile Selassie).
Valdemar Langlet - in the early 20th century rode across Russia, then made an extended journey across Hungary.
Sir Austen Henry Layard - rode from Montenegro to Persia.
Ludwig Leichhardt, the German equestrian explorer who disappeared in Australia in 1848.
Margaret Leigh - rode from Cornwall, England, to Strathascaig, Scotland, in 1938.
Mary Lester - rode from the Pacific port of Ampala, over the mountains of Honduras, to the Atlantic in the late nineteenth century.
Carl Linnaeus - On the day before his twenty-fifth birthday he saddled his horse, and armed with a plant press and a crazy notion, Linnaeus rode away from his family’s home in Uppsala, Sweden and into scientific history.
The great Protestant reformer,
Martin Luther mounted his horse and set off to attend law school at his father's request rather than study theology. That equestrian journey had unexpected results.William MacCann - rode across the Pampas of Argentina in 1851.
J. A. MacGahan - rode from Fort Perovsky, Russia, across the Kyzil-Kum Desert to Adam-Kurulgan, Kyrgyzstan in 1873.
Colonel Joseph McCracken rode 800 miles from Pennsylvania to Kentucky in 1963 at the age of 75.
In 1950 rode from Urimchi in Western China, across the Himalayas, into Tibet, where he was murdered.Ella Maillart made a solo journey through Central Asia in the early 1930s from the Tien Shan mountains of Mongolia to the faraway walls of fabled Bokhara
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim undertook a 14,000 kilometre-long, two-year expedition from Andizhan in Russian Turkestan to Beijing, China in 1906.
Kate Marsden made a 2000-mile journey across Siberia to the leper colonies of Yakutsk.
Hippisley Cunliffe Marsh rode from Turkey to India when the British Raj was in its ascendancy.
Violet Martin and Edith Somerville - the authors of the immortal classic, Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. decided to tour North Wales on horseback in 1894.
Colonel James Meline made a 2,000 mile journey in 1866 from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe.
Beginning in 1789, French Long Rider Francois André Michaux (1770–1855) spent a dozen years exploring the United States
Edward Mitford, rode 7,000 miles from Eastern Europe to India in 1839.
Heinrich Möllhausen made four extensive journeys in the mid-nineteenth century across the still unexplored frontier of North America.
Between 1591 and 1597 the indefatigable Fynes Moryson roamed, witnessed, rode and wrote his way through a host of countries and principalities.
Henri Moser – left St. Petersburg in 1882 rode to Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, made his way to Tehran, crossed the Caucasus mountains and finally emerged at Istanbul in 1883.
Don Mulford - he and his wife, June, were the first to ride along America's Pacific Crest Trail in 1959.
Hieronymous Münzer - with three friends he rode from Nüremberg to visit the Iberian Peninsular in 1494.
Tim Myers - was one of the four members of Ride4 America, who rode from Oklahoma to New York.
Virl Norton - in the winter of 1979 he set out to ride a thousand miles from Effingham, Illinois to Washington D.C., where he met President Jimmy Carter.
Steve O'Connor - rode from Seville, Spain to Penzance, England. He also made the first modern ride to all four corners of Ireland.
Caitriona O’Leary made a ride through Rajasthan, India.
Frederick Law Olmstead - the designer of New York's Central Park, rode across Texas and the American South-West in 1857.
Ole Olufsen made two mounted explorations of the Pamir Mountains in 1896 and 1898.
Claude Sosthène Grasset d'Orcet (1828-1900) was a French archaeologist and journalist who spent fifteen years travelling in Europe and North Africa.
Tex O’Reilly - rode from San Antonio, Texas to Chicago, Illinois and met President Taft.
Prince Henri d'Orléans - accompanied Gabriel Bonvalot, on that explorer's journey from Paris to Hanoi.
Jocham Östrup - rode an Arabian stallion 4,500 kilometers through Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor.
The Overland Westerners: George and Charlie Beck, Jay Ransom and Raymond Rayne - rode to all 48 state capitals in the USA, between 1912 and 1915.
Mungo Park - travelled to Africa and reached the Gambia river in 1795. He ascended to the British outpost of Pisania and travelled to the village of Ludamar.
Richard Thomas Parks rode from Savannah, Georgia to Moss Landing, California in 1992
Bridget Persson - In 1341, accompanied by her husband, Bridget rode Santiago de Compostella in Spain, then made a number of other long rides, including a hazardous journey to Jerusalem. She was canonised in 1391.
Dmitri Peshkov - rode from Albanzinski, Siberia, to Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1889.
Ida Pfeiffer- made an equestrian journey across Iceland in 1845.
Abelardo Piovano rode his Criollo, Lunarejo Cardal, from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Mendoza, Chile in 1925.
Roger Pocock - made a ride along the infamous Outlaw Trail, a 3,000 mile solo journey that took the adventurer from Canada to Mexico City.
Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777–1842) was a celebrated English artist and explorer who travelled to Spain, Portugal, Russia, Finland, Sweden and South America.
Thierry Posty - made many Long Rides in Europe, Canada and Alaska, Australia, Mongolia, South America, the United States and Cuba and South Africa.
Hezekiah Prince made a remarkable journey in the winter of 1793 across the newly formed United States, riding 1,200 miles from his home in Maine south to Virginia.
General Nikolay Przhevalsky was Imperial Russia’s most famous explorer. He made four equestrian journeys in Central Asia, crossing the Gobi desert, the Tian Shan mountains and exploring northern Tibet
Raphael Pumpelly - undertook several equestrian journeys during the course of his long academic career, including in the Apache-held portion of Arizona territory, Japan, China, Turkestan and Russia..
George Whitfield Ray came sailing into Buenos Aires in 1889 and began a series of explorations and misadventures which still make for hair-raising reading.
Robert Rigal - rode from the Camargue, France, to Finland's North Cape, then made another Long Ride from the Camargue to Romania.
Susanna Carson Rijnhart was a Canadian Long Rider who not only suffered tremendous emotional heartache, she had to protect herself against sexual predators when she was most vulnerable.
Joseph Rock - travelled for nearly thirty years in wild border provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan in remote tribal regions of China.
W. C. Rose - this mysterious Long Rider wrote a detailed account of his equestrian journey from Mexico to Argentina, an account about which Roger Pocock told readers of England’s Wide World magazine.
Countess Linde von Rosen - rode through various countries in Europe in the early 1930s.
Brother William of Rubrick - rode from the Crimea to Karakorum, Mongolia, and back in the thirteenth century.
Harry Rutstein - the first person in modern history to retrace the route of Marco Polo from Venice, Italy, to Beijing, China.
George Ruxton - rode from the port of Vera Cruz to the fabled walls of Santa Fe, Mexico in 1847.
Count Waclaw Rzewuski - rode from Sawran, Ukraine into the heartland of the Arabian Peninsular and back in 1817.
Jorge Molina Salas - rode from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1946.
People had a hard time defining Ross Salmon, as during various parts of his colourful life he had been a pioneering aviator, decorated war hero, South American jungle cowboy, BBC TV star and a Long Rider.
Erich von Salzmann rode 6,000 kilometers from Tientsin, China to Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1903.
Henry Savage Landor - made famous journey through Tibet in the late 1890s.
Max Schiffler - may have made a ride in the Far East and attempted to ride through Argentina and Brazil.
Walther Schmidt-Salzmann - after the Second World War he rode his Shagya Arabian stallion, Lapis, more than 6,000 kilometers across war-torn Russia and Eastern Europe.
Hans Schwarz - rode from the mighty frozen Alps where he lived to the steamy plains of faraway Turkey - and back - in the 1930s.
Otto Schwarz - rode 48,000 kilometres (30,000 miles) on horseback across five continents, including Japan, Europe, Africa and North & South America. (He was no relation to Hans Schwarz.)
Lillian Schmidt - rode through the Rocky Mountains in 1984.
Ernest Schoedsack was a film-maker, turned Long Rider, who joined Marguerite Harrison and Merian C. Cooper, on their 1920s ride across Persia.
Otto Schoener, Will Drew and Raymond Joyce were American missionaries who went to China in the 1930s.
Quincy and Ella Scott - rode from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, in 1907.
Robert Seney - mounted on his big grey Trooper, he explored California’s back country trails and also rode the Pacific Crest Trail three times. His combined travels through all 48 states exceeded 24,000 miles in the saddle.
Franc and Jean Shor - rode across the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to Gilgit, Pakistan, in 1952.
Giyan Sing - made a 4,000 mile ride from Kashmir, north to Gilgit, across the dangerous Pamir mountain range, through Chinese Turkistan and Mongolia and into Siberia during the winter of 1910.
Gorn Skifter - rode from the Arctic Circle, Finland to Haugesund, Norway in 1953.
Wilfred Skrede - in 1941 when the Nazis occupied his homeland of Norway he fled across Russia, Siberia, China, Turkestan and India.
Daniel Denison Slade - in 1883 Slade and his daughters rode through primeval forests, alongside rushing rivers and ventured into the still unspoiled valleys of Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts.
J. Smeaton Chase - made many horse trips throughout the American West early in the 20th century, including one from Mexico to Oregon and another through the Mojave Desert.
rode a thousand miles from Fort Wingate, Arizona to Fort Sam Houston, Texas.Alexander Spotswood - led the first mounted expedition from Virginia into the Allegheny Mountains in 1716.
Freya Stark - explored Turkey, Nepal and the Pamir mountains on horseback.
Edward Percy Stebbing - arranged a ride in August, 1937, wherein a host of British horse riders set out from eight starting points, bound for a central meeting place at Eastbourne in Sussex.
Thomas Stevens - mounted on his faithful horse, Texas, Stevens crossed the Steppes in search of adventure.
A. W. Stirling FRGS - explored North Queensland, Australia, on horseback in 1882.
Anna Louise Strong. - encouraged by Dictator Joseph Stalin, and mounted on her horse, American Girl, she rode into the seldom-seen Pamir mountains of faraway Tadjikistan.
John Mcdouall Stuart was one of the most important explorers and equestrian travellers in Australian history, having arrived in Australia in 1839.
Jonathan Swift - rode extensively in Ireland in the early 1700s, journeying from Cavan to Carbery.
Ella Sykes - rode side-saddle 2,000 miles across Persia in the nineteenth century.
F. A. Talbot - rode through the North West Passage of the Canadian Rockies in 1901.
Richard "Diamond Dick" Tanner - rode his mare Gyp from Lincoln, Nebraska to New York City and back in 1893.
Annie Royle Taylor - made a daring horse ride from Sikkim to Lhasa, the forbidden capital of Tibet in September, 1892.
Albert Terhune - rode through Syria and the Middle East in 1894.
Maria "Nelly" Ternan - England's first female foreign correspondent, rode into the mountains of Algeria in search of lions in 1881.
Colonel Alexander Watkins Terrell, Colonels M. T. Johnson, George Flournoy and Peter Smith - At the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865, the four Confederate Long Riders fled to Mexico.
Charles Thurlow Craig - rode in Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil and the Gran Chaco jungle during the early 1920s.
Count Ilia Tolstoy - rode from India to China across Tibet.
Count Leo Tolstoy - was so passionate about horses that his friend and fellow author, Ivan Turgenev, accused him of having been a horse in his previous life!
Emile Trinkler - made a legendary trip across the forbidden kingdom of Afghanistan during the early 1920s.
Aimé Tschiffely - made the most famous equestrian journey of the modern age, riding from Buenos Aires to New York on two Criollo horses, Mancha and Gato, starting in 1925.
Henry Tudor - set off from New York City in 1879 determined to ride to Punta Arenas, Patagonia. The Guild can find no information to confirm he arrived at his far-off goal.
Ethel Tweedie - made a ride In Iceland in 1888.
F. Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - set off in 1938 to ride from the Indian town of Kalimpong, over the Himalayan mountains, to the Tibetan city of Gyantse.
Joe Vanorio, the movie star who rode from New York to California in 1928.
A. C. Veatch FRGS - rode from Quito, Ecuador to Bogata, Columbia, via the Andes Mountains in 1913.
Harry La Verne - rode from San Francisco to Galveston, Texas, in 1894.
Vonceil Viking - Few Long Riders ever attracted more spotlights than did the would-be movie star who called herself Vonceil Viking. The year was 1927 when the attractive blonde announced to the press that she was going to ride her horse, “Broadway,” from New York to Los Angeles.
Sir Hanns Vischer - crossed the Sahara, from north to south, on horseback in 1906. The journey started in Tripoli, Tunisia and ended at Lake Chad.
Harriet Wadsworth Harper and her cousin Martha Wadsworth made a 1200-mile journey in May 1907 "down through Virginia to West Virginia, up the Ohio River, across Pennsylvania, and home to Genesee, New York."
Martha Wadsworth - in April 1912 made an equestrian journey from Washington DC to her home in Genesee Valley New York, and back. According to contemporary accounts, Martha "made it an annual custom to ride from Washington to her New York home, taking a different route each time."
Charles Warner - rode from Virginia, through North Carolina, and into the remote hills of Tennessee.
Magdalene Weale - rode through the "Highlands of Shropshire" in 1933 on her ambling mare, Sandy.
H. H. Weatherly rode a Thoroughbred from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1909.
Edwin Lord Weeks - this now-famous artist rode from Persia to India in 1892.
J. Wentworth Day - mounted on his Thoroughbred, Robert, Wentworth Day made a ride through Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk, with the Second World War raging all around him.
Eberhard von Westarp - rode across the Ottoman Empire and Persia in 1913.
Little Chief White Eagle and Princess Rainbow Sistesso of USA - rode from Los Angeles to New York on their honeymoon in 1930.
Oscar Wilde - rode through the rugged terrain of the Peloponnese mountains to reach Olympia, Greece in 1890.
Jim Wilder - spent many years riding through all 48 of the continental United States.
Messanie Wilkins - rode from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast in 1954, at the age of 63, mounted on her faithful horse, Tarzan.
Harry de Windt - saddled up in 1890 and set off to examine the forgotten corners of Persia and Baluchistan.
Theodore Winthrop - travelled across some of the most remote portions of Washington Territory in the early 1850s, using horses and canoes.
Don and Harris Worcester - rode across the Mojave Desert - twice - in the 1930s. The boys were aged 15 and 13.
Arthur Young - rode more than 5,000 miles on seven journeys in the late 1700s across England, Ireland and France.
Colonel Charles Young, the son of freed slaves and only the third African-American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, rode from Wilberforce, Ohio to Washington DC.
George Younghusband explored southern Burma on horseback in early 1887, mounted on a native pony called Joe.
Lieutenant Zubowitz - Rode from Vienna to Paris in November 1874.