Louis Abernathy and Temple Abernathy

In 1909 the boys rode by horseback from Frederick, Oklahoma, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and back.

[2] When the boys completed their Santa Fe journey, they began planning a cross-country horseback ride to New York City, again by themselves, to meet Theodore Roosevelt when he returned from his trip to Africa and Europe.

They were greeted as celebrities, and rode their horses in a ticker-tape parade just behind the car carrying Roosevelt.

While in New York, the boys purchased a small Brush Motor Car, which they drove, again by themselves, back to Oklahoma, shipping their horses home by train.

Louis later graduated from the University of Oklahoma Law School and became a lawyer in Wichita Falls, Texas.