Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
Montgomery, Ben2016
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Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with Harlem gangsters, she stood atop Maine's Mt. Katahdin. Driven by a painful marriage to an oppressive husband, she became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person - man or woman - to walk it twice and three times.
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Author:
Montgomery, Ben, author
Imprint:
Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2016.
Collation:
288 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781613734995 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.51092
LC class:
GV199.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
1548358
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