I don't think they would either. And quite frankly, private citizens would stand with them. Enough to keep the Feds at bay.
11 days!!! I cannot begin to express my anxiety over what may transpire for the senate races...

Horseback riding without a helmet?

Yes, thank-you!

Thank you for those references. I appreciate the time you took to post them.

Oh, I think 10 or 12 should do. If that doesn't do the trick, then they're too dim to bother with. Wait a second -- damn! Those dimwits can vote. Looks like the Idiocracy is on its way.

I am aware of much of what you have outlined. Thanks, however, for the articles. In reality, I have to be discriminating or else my files will start to look like the 5th floor of the Library of Congress.

Thank you for the additional information. From the article, it seems that keeping at least some horses on the ground, and exchange trailering the rest would let them make more miles per day. I like the touch of keeping some rested horses in motion, so that even if everyone is not on horseback the whole way, the group as a whole is.

The most concise info I found on how far horses travel under various conditions was on a cartography website! I include it below for those who are interested:

On Roads / trails
Level or rolling terrain: 40
Hilly terrain: 30
Mountainous terrain: 20

Off-Road (or unkempt trails etc)
Level/rolling grasslands: 30
Hilly grasslands: 25
Level/rolling forest/thick scrub: 20
Very hilly forest/thick scrub: 15

Un-blazed Mountain passes: 10
Marshland: 10

Assumptions
An average quality horse, of a breed suitable for riding, conditioned for overland travel and in good condition.
Roads and trails are in good condition and up kept by whatever local authority deals with them.
Weather is good to fair, and travelers are riding for around ten hours a day.

Notes
Halve these distances for a horse pulling a cart or for a very heavily laden horse (e.g. a fully armoured knight who insists on wearing his armour all day rather than having it stowed on a second baggage horse as would be normal!).

Add half again for specially trained horses and riders who are prepared to push hard (rangers, scouts and messangers, etc...) though do bear in mind that horses cannot be pushed like this for more than a few days at a time. You can add a bit more again to this distance if the breed of horse is exceptionally suitable for this sort of thing, but I’d say 2 to 2.5 times the base is the absolute maximum without some sort of magical assistance!

Poor weather such as heavy rain or wind should reduce distances by about one quarter, and very poor conditions like heavy snow or gale force winds, etc.. should reduce distances by at least half if not more.

Finding a place to ford a small river or swimming your horse across a larger river should knock a couple of miles off the day’s journey, other unique obstacles might have a similar reduction. (as a guide remember a horse walks at around 4 miles per hour (compared to a human average of around 2.5 - 3mph) so if the obstacle takes half an hour to deal with thats a couple of miles lost.

Out of interest
The Tevis cup is a 100-mile-in-one-day competition which goes over some quite rugged and mountainous trail terrain in the western states of USA... but they do it on very special arab horses, with little or no baggage and even the winning times are usually around 17 hours! link

Jan

Indeed. It's the modus operandi of the baiters.