Fifty years ago today, on September 5, 1976, 54 of the 92 riders who started the Great American Horse Race crossed the finish line in Sacramento. Here is the complete list.
A scene from the Great American Horse Race of 1976 from the book by Curtis L. Lewis and Dennis D. Underwood of the same name(more…)
Tom Sites earned this patch for riding 1,966 miles across America in the Great American Horse Race. He had no crew, no experience, and a horse named Jose Dante who once ran him into traffic.
Trucker Angela Wood drove a covered wagon 4,500 miles coast to coast. A runaway in Asheville scalped her. Arkansas mud took a backhoe to escape. Then Starbuck, a rescue horse once starved to 250 pounds, carried her the last 175 miles into the Pacific.
Travel Grit: What was the first day of your Long Ride across Australia like? Gin Szagola: It felt like I was going to my own funeral, if I’m going to be completely honest. I set off with the realization that this could be it, you know, everything could go tits up. It could be a complete dumpster fire. My horse could kill me. He could kill himself. It could just be a complete disaster.
– Gin Szagola describing the first day of her ride across Australia. Listen to her interview here.
Sea G Rhydr is traveling through America in a tiny covered wagon with her two ponies, Franklin and Theodore and her Corgi Thick. Listen to Sea’s story on the Travel Grit podcast.
