Grandma Gatewood's walk the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
"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 two hundred dollars. 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. A...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated,
2016.
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| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| Summary: | "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 two hundred dollars. 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 gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, 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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| Physical Description: | 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781613734995 1613734999 9781613747186 (cloth) 1613747187 (cloth) |
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