Charles Thayer Mounted on Mongolian Horse
Exterior view with diplomat and author Charles Thayer dressed in a white suit and seated on a Mongolian horse with two native men close by. Thayer describes as "on Gobi Desert - 6/26/63." Charles Thayer headed a party of fourteen Americans who traveled to Mongolia on a vacation in the summer of 1963, probably in June. They arrived at Ulan Bator and during the trip visited the Gobi Desert as well as the steppes of Mongolia and the site of the ancient capital of Karakorum.