anaatewood'salk: The Inspiring Story of the Wan Whoaved thaalacan ail

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."--

Author: Ben Montgomery

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Publication Date: April 01, 2016

Number of Pages: 288 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1613734999

ISBN-13: 9781613734995