From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Mar. 13, 1971:

Riding a bay Tennessee walker named Buck, endurance horseman Orville Fleshman had started out on horseback from his home in Cuba, Mo., on Feb. 20 and was “ahead of schedule” when he visited Lawrence over the weekend. He had been averaging 42 miles per day on his journey to Calgary, Alberta. He reported that he was impressed with the “friendly majority” in Lawrence in spite of an anxious moment when he had been approached by two “hippie types” as he rode into town. The two had asked him if they could ride his horse, and when he declined to allow them, they “got a whip, with flowers on it, from their car and one of them hit him across the head.” The other man was also brandishing a weapon, so Fleshman rode quickly off and found refuge at the Kenneth Wilcox farm for himself and Buck.