No one knew they were looking at a hero and his two horses.
No one had ever attempt.
Their collective goal was to ride more than ten thousand miles from Buenos Aires to New York.
Next to him were his two faithful Criollo horses, Mancha and Gato.
Standing on the threshold of equestrian travel history was a young Swiss Long Rider named Aime Tschiffely.
The place, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Instead the local press derided him as "a lunatic proposing to ride overland to New York." The time was 1925.
No one knew they were looking at a hero and his two horses