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Author Montgomery, Ben.

Title Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail / Ben Montgomery.

Edition First paperback edition.
Publication Info. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2016.
©2014
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1970015~S1
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 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO GATEWOOD    AVAILABLE
 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO GATEWOOD    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Biography  BIO GATEWOO    DUE 05-21-24
 Naper Blvd. Adult Biography  BIO GATEWOOD    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Biography  BIO GATEWOOD    AVAILABLE
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Description 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, 1887-1973.
Hikers -- Appalachian Trail.
Women conservationists.
Appalachian Trail -- History.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9781613734995
1613734999
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