The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-09
ST. Adams GIRL
159 DAYS ON ROAD
Details of HOrsewOman's
Trip Across Continent
Are Received
STORY
OF LONG JOURNEY
Both Rider and Her Horse. Salem,
Reach Destination in First Glass Con
ditiOn-MOuntains. Deserts and Plains
Crossed at Rate of 24.3 Miles Il Day.

- L. <A1@ip-A-NfNs req 3.-IllIeGeSJllG ue-l
tails of the transcontinental horseback
trip made by Miss Billie O. Lempie last
year have been received here Miss Lem
pie left here on June 30 and arrived inI
San Francisco, Cal, in the early days
Of December after having been on the
road l59 days, covered 1852 miles. and
crossed Is states on her journey
salem" her companion and sole means
of locomotion, arrived on the other side
OF the continent in prime condition,
showing but slight signs of his long Jour-
ney .E
According to data submitted b. Miss
Lempie. the weight of her horse at the
end Of the trip was 70 pounds, or an
proXimately so less than when the start
was made. The total weight carried by
''SaleIa" was 1875 pounds. and an addi-
tional of six pounds OF oats for one-haIf
a day, three-foWths OF the distance. 1T
took l59 days to make the haunt and the
average distance travelled in a day wa.
- J miles, while the maximum number
of miles covered i'm ~ hours was 81.
According to the Statistics the longest
time horse and rider We're without water
was y hours, while the longest horse
and rider went fOOdleSS and waterleSs
was ten hours Miss Lempie makes a
note that ON this occasion the water was
unit for human consumption"
! The deepest snow struck in the noun
/ tam regions was Is inches and the max
mum hours ridden M a ~nowstorm in
any one uay Waf" slN. While the writer
does not 50 state, IT is imagined that
this hard trail was strucl. i'm the foot
hills of the Rockies
ne maximum h"lus ridden IN the ram
III any one aay were seven ana a NAN:
tine accident Hp fviv, ,Farl
and that IN Utah No Indication as to
IT'S nature is given however:
>Aiem wore OUT hFe PAIRS OF front
ana TOUT l3fs Oh hind SHOES ON the Jour
He}H, ThiIe BACK ana front FeSettings To-.
tailed Two caeh,
Inc highest attitude ct mountains
crossed were: AdronG4eks. 34tQ feet:
RockF Mountains, at Hall ranch mot
on the main road 1000 feet; Promon-
Loiy range; OJs,h' 'sa@ ieet; sierra y
.ao@S: luha Ia~@, N,4'' leel' ana inc
\. Nlh"f range west, iNoNht house
1,lmi feet.
thirteen states We're crossed era route
to the coast and while salem lost
about ~ pounds on the long trek, ms
rider gained three -.--.-
-e>ome otuAFes, larde9t d9yss EldeS w2Ie,
nut m across the sand swept waste. OF
the West. Deserts were crossed a. fol-
lows: Red desert. Wyoming; Great
American desert. Utah, and the Nevada
ttt -tI T. Nv ave!
An interesting story which appeared
IN lhc san francesca chronicle, date of
December !. follows:
hIty-pIue hundred miles on horse
back IN TOO days and an average OF about
p miles day Is the record OF 2lNear-
old Miss Billie .. Lemple. who arrived
in san Francisco Yesterday after cross
ing he continent from It. AlbanS. VT.
ON Salem. chestnut thoroughbred
Morgan geldjng
L
long braid down her back and Il girlish
gl"gle OF delight at her adventure, did
/ not even ston downtown long enough
/ to find herself LODGINGS for the night,
| but went immediately to the san Fran
/ cisco Riding school To have salem
checked in, and from there out to the
beach TO baptRe salem IN the PdcsHc
ocean
4" / have banti2ed him i'm Lakes Cham
plain. Erie. Michigan. and Great Salt
lake, in the Mississippi, the Missouri
and all the large rivers along the way
and [ wanted him to finish IN IN the
Pacific, because | am SO proud OF the
trim he has made. SAID Miss LemDle last
: NIGHT upon returning from her rainy ride
through the mark out to the beach.
LITTLE Billie Lpmuie seems to be thor
ouphbred too. along with her beloved
salem for she has never comnlaint
after the lone. hard trip. which she be
! gan on the 30th of last June. In fact,
/ she SAYS IL WAS an Il TER anu NHtiN-
1 "a she laws claim to many interesting
/ and exciting adventures along the way
She declines to tell of any of them now,
/ as she plans to write series of articles
! for an outing magazine or a book, in
which she will relate them all
/ The trim was made for the nurc fun
4 of the Journey and to zee if Salem
could do it. the young horse-woman
maintains but as she also admits be