Willard Glazier

ISBN 1590480201

Charles Dudley Warner

ISBN 1590480279

In 1887 Warner combined his urbane wit with a love of adventure travel when he penned “On Horseback in Virginia.” Always a keen observer, the roving author set out on horseback to investigate a great, rugged stretch of southern Appalachia. The extended equestrian journey took Warner from Virginia, through North Carolina, and into the remote hills of Tennessee.

Additionally, the book contains a second narrative account of Warner’s equestrian adventures in the Old West. This time he saddled up and rode from El Paso, Texas to Mexico City, Mexico.

Both tales comprise a book full of meaty descriptions told by one of America’s premier nineteenth century storytellers.

Miles Abernathy

ISBN 1590481267

Once they were famous from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Theodore Winthrop

Mary Bosanquet

ISBN 1590480716

The year 1939 was a bleak and gloomy time in England. Fire and darkness loomed on the horizon as war with Nazi Germany drew ever closer. In the midst of this national angst young Mary Bosanquet had a revelation. She would toss off college in London, board a steam-ship, voyage to Vancouver, Canada, then buy and ride a horse alone more than 2,500 miles  to New York city. Simple enough!  
She could ride, had a grand total of eighty English pounds to fund the one-woman expedition, and figured horses would be cheap out in the Wild West of Canada. Besides, she reasoned, if the world really was going to self-destruct, she wanted a memorable adventure, “such as befell heroic voyagers”, before the global ship sank.
If it was adventure the young English adventuress wanted, she got it!
Bosanquet rode through the mighty Rockies, was wooed by love-struck cowboys, chased by a grizzly bear, feasted with lonely trappers, was adopted for the winter by a family of Irish farmers, and even suspected of being a Nazi spy, scouting out Canada in preparation for a German invasion. And through it all she had Jonty and Timothy, her whimsical and charming horses.
If the three inseparable companions sought to put the news of Europe’s descent into the madness behind them, then their eighteen month journey through the silent mountains, dreamy forests, and mighty plains of pristine Canada provided the sanctuary they sought.
Illustrated with photographs taken during her remarkable trip, Bosanquet’s story is as heart-warming today as the day it was written.

John Beard

ISBN 1590480422

Mary Higginbotham

The Long Riders' Guild is proud to announce the publication of In Genuine Cowgirl Fashion, the life story of Two Gun Nan Aspinwall, the first woman to ride across the United States alone. Riding from San Francisco to New York City in 1910-11, Nan covered 4,496 miles during 180 days in the saddle. 

Please go to Barnes & Noble or Amazon.co.uk.

ISBN 1590481607

The Old West was populated by a host of colourful characters including gunfighters, cowboys, buffalo hunters, sod busters, and at least one cavalry officer with the eye of an eagle and a penchant for fine writing. Colonel James Meline was an educated New York journalist, turned pony soldier, who had fought for the Union during the recent Civil War. With the country lulled into an uncomfortable peace, the fifty-four year old Meline decided to partake of one last mounted adventure before he hung up his spurs.  Lucky for the history of equestrian travel that he did.

The resultant book, “Two Thousand Miles on Horseback” is a beautifully written, eye witness account of a United States that is no more.

Meline was no fool. He sensed that the great American wilderness was about to be tamed. Setting out from Fort Leavenworth in the summer of 1866, Meline observed a nation on the move. In his first week in the saddle Meline counted 680 wagons heading west. Moreover, he warned, “the iron rail will soon clamp East and West, leaving no room for adventure or personal freedom.”

Yet before that dire prediction became a reality, Meline participated in one of the greatest equestrian adventures of the time. 

He noted everything from the price of pistols to the practices of Pawnees. Border land barbarities too hideous “to write in English,”  horses struck dead by lightning, forlorn graves, summer days so hot they drove men mad – Meline faithfully recorded the details of prairie life seen during his ride to Santa Fe.

Once he reached fabled New Mexico the saddle-borne scribe fell in with Kit Carson. What followed was a three day marathon interview wherein the legendary frontiersman regaled the cavalry journalist with tales of fighting the Navajo, hunting gigantic grizzly bears, and eluding capture by Indians.

Then, with his notebooks full, Meline headed home, experiencing a storm on the way that was so cold that “even my memory froze.”

Though the frontier they inhabited is a thing of the past, Meline and his cast of mounted characters still jump off the pages and dare you to ride down the road of adventure with them.

John Codman

With a superb new foreword by Brandon Schrand!

The author, a sea captain by trade, spent his leisure hours on land riding his mare, Fanny.  
A self-confessed "septuagenarian,” Codman was never shy about sharing his horse-based opinions.
Walking, Codman said, was a “solitary entertainment” and the bicycle he dismissed as being “unnatural.” Thus it was from the back of his horse that the old sea captain sailed over the land of his birth.
This once-famous book, “Winter Sketches from the Saddle”, was first published in 1888. It recommends riding for your health and describes Codman’s many equestrian journeys through New England during the winter of 1887.
“There is no greater pleasure than to find myself on a horse,” Codman wrote.
The next best thing is to read his classic book!