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Montgomery, Ben.
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Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, -1973.
Hikers -- Appalachian Trail -- Biography.
Women conservationists -- Appalachian Trail -- Biography.
Appalachian Trail -- History.
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Grandma Gatewood's w...
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Grandma
Gatewood
's
walk
: the
inspiring
story
of the
woman
who
saved
the
Appalachian
Trail
/ Ben Montgomery.
by
Montgomery, Ben.
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, [2014] [2014]
Subjects
Gatewood
, Emma Rowena Caldwell, -1973.
Hikers --
Appalachian
Trail
-- Biography.
Women conservationists --
Appalachian
Trail
-- Biography.
Appalachian
Trail
-- History.
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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.
Gatewood
became a hiking celebrity and appeared on TV and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely
saved
the
trail
from extinction. Author Ben Montgomery was given unprecedented access to
Gatewood
's own diaries,
trail
journals, and correspondence, and interviewed surviving family members and those she met along her hike, all to answer the question so many asked: Why did she do it? The
story
of
Grandma
Gatewood
will inspire readers of all ages by illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination."
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277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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First edition.
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Non-fiction
796.51 Montgomery, Ben / Grandma
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