Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery (Hardcover, 2014)

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The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farmreared, 67yearold greatgrandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a runin with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maines Mount Katahdin.

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Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography 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. Even those who know of Gatewood don't know the full story-a story of triumph from pain, rebellion from brutality, hope from suffering.

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PublisherChicago Review Press
ISBN-139781613747186
eBay Product ID (ePID)209663577

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Book TitleGrandma Gatewood's Walk: the Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicHistory
GenreBiographies & True Stories, Sports
TypeTextbook
AuthorBen Montgomery
FormatHardcover

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Item Height228 mm
Item Weight553 g
Item Width152 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorBen Montgomery

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