Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail / Ben Montgomery.
Montgomery, Ben.
2014
GV199.92.G35 M66 2014eb
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Title Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail / Ben Montgomery.
Author Montgomery, Ben.
ISBN 9781613747193 (electronic book)
1613747195 (electronic book)
9781613747216 (electronic book)
1613747217 (electronic book)
1306476844 (electronic book)
9781306476843 (electronic book)
9781613747186
1613747187
Published Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number GV199.92.G35 M66 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.51092
Distributor No. MWT11333957
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."-- From publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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