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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Two Young Brothers Rode Across The Country On Horseback To Hang Out With Teddy Roosevelt
Description: Today in 1909, the brothers Abernathy, ages five and eight, started a 1,300 mile trip - on horseback, unsupervised - from Oklahoma to New Mexico and back. The next year they got back on their horses to ride to New York to see their dad's pal, Teddy Roosevelt. Plus: Envision Art Gallery in Wichita, Kansas may be the first art museum meant for blind artists and art lovers.Â
Ultimate free-range kids: Two boys, 6 and 10, rode horses to New York — from Oklahoma (Washington Post)
Inside the First Art Gallery for Blind Artists and Audiences (Thrillist)
Ride along...