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, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile...
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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, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. By September 1955 she stood atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin, sang “Ameri
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781613734995 (1613734999)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
It's difficult sometimes to separate the quality of a book from the subject of the story. Grandma Gatewood's Walk is a wonderful book, but largely because of the merits of its subject: Emma Gatewood, who, starting at the age of 67, hiked the entire length of the Appalachia Trail thrice, as well as t...
The Story of Grandma GatewoodWas interested in reading this because it's about the Appalachian trail which I've been on a few feet of it in TN and MA.At 67, in 1955 she left Ohio and took a bus to WV and onto Georgia where she started her trail hiking.Love hearing of all the nature and can picture i...
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