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Annie "Mesannie" Wilkins (1891–1980) was a 63-year-old farmer who made national headlines by traveling over 5,000 miles across the United States from Maine to California with a retired race horse named Tarzan, a packhorse named Rex and a dog named Depeche Toi (French for "Hurry Up" ).
Feb 13, 2023 · Annie Wilkins lived for 24 years beyond the original prognosis he’d given her. Instead of settling into a state run retirement home just waiting to die, she’d travelled thousands of miles on horseback, saw the Pacific Ocean, and published a book.
Sep 14, 2023 · In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two...
Jun 1, 2021 · NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion.
Jul 4, 2024 · Annie Wilkins, aged 88, passed away on Tuesday, February 19, 1980, in Whitefield, Maine. She was laid to rest in the Libby family plot at Maple Grove Cemetery in Minot, ME where her gravestone bears the inscription “the last of the saddle tramps.”
May 2, 2024 · In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died.
Jun 1, 2021 · Delightful true story of Annie Wilkins, an older woman in the 1950's who embarks on a journey on horseback from Vermont to California. Annie is diagnosed with TB and knows her life is coming to an end.
Then there is Messanie Wilkins. She was acting on orders from the Lord! In 1954, at the age of 63, Wilkins had plenty to worry about. A destitute spinster in ill health, Wilkins had been told she had less than two years left to live, provided she spent them quietly.
In 1954 after a fatal diagnosis, Mesannie “Jackass Annie” Wilkins of Minot, Maine packed up her beloved horse Tarzan and headed to California with her pup Depesche Toi in tow. She had never done a long trip on horseback and she had barely left Maine in her 63 years.
In 1954, 63-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died.
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