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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Main Author: Montgomery, Ben
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 2016.
Edition:First paperback edition.
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505 0 |a Pick up your feet -- Go home, Grandma -- Rhododendron and rattlesnakes -- Wild dogs -- How'd you get in here? -- Our fight -- Lady Tramp -- Attention -- Good hard life -- Storm -- Shelter -- I'll get there -- Destruction -- So much behind -- All by myself -- Return to Rainbow Lake -- Aloneless more complete than ever -- Again -- Pioneer woman -- Blazing -- Monuments -- Epilogue. 
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