@article{325449,
      recid = {325449},
      author = {Hunt, Linda,},
      title = {Bold spirit : Helga Estby's forgotten walk across  Victorian America /},
      publisher = {Anchor Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xvi, 307 p. :},
      year = {2005},
      note = {Originally published: Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho  Press, 2003.},
      abstract = {In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight named  Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she  learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a  woman who walked across America. Hoping to save her  family's farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed  with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a  revolver, and Clara's curling iron, set out on foot from  Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14  states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five  dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western  boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they  confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions.  Their journey to New York challenged contemporary notions  of femininity and captured the public imagination--but  their trip had such devastating consequences that their  achievement was blanketed in silence for nearly a  century.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/325449},
}