They had been traveling together for years. In 1909 they rode horseback from Fredrick, Oklahoma to Santa Fe, New Mexico and back. Louis was nine and Temple was five.
After completing the ride to Santa Fe they began planning a ride to New York City to meet Theodore Roosevelt. They made that trip from Oklahoma in 1910 and were greeted as celebrities and rode in a ticker tape parade behind Roosevelt's car. They bought a Brush Motor Car in New York and drove it back to Oklahoma. They were ten and six years old.
In 1911 they accepted the challenge of riding horseback from New York to San Francisco in sixty days or less. They agreed not to eat or sleep indoors during the trip. A prize of $10.000 was offered. After a long trip they arrived in San Francisco in sixty two days and failed to secure the prize.
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