Well, they weren't distracted by social media

This is pretty incredible.  I have never heard the story but it is apparently true.

Happy 4th of July from Frederick OK where in 1910, Bud and Temple Abernathy set out on horseback to Washington DC to visit President Taft. They were 6 and 10 years old. They then rode on to NY to visit President Roosevelt. The European mind can’t comprehend this. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/SGGizo0iuJ

— Bobby Panzenbeck (@Panzenbeck) July 4, 2024

The details are even more remarkable.  From Wikipedia:  

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 made that trip in 1910. 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.

In 1911, they accepted a challenge to ride horseback from New York to San Francisco in 60 days or less. They agreed not to eat or sleep indoors at any point of the journey. They would collect a $10,000 prize if they succeeded.

After a long trip, they arrived in San Francisco in 62 days, thereby losing the prize but setting a record for the time elapsed for the trip.