Grandma Gatewood's walk: the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
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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, 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.
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Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell
Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, -- -1973
Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, -- 1887-1973
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Hikers -- Appalachian Trail -- Biography
History
Middle Atlantic States
New England
Nonfiction
Outdoor life
Sound recording
Southern States
Southwestern States
Sports
Sports & Recreations
Travel
Twentieth century
United States
Women conservationists
Women conservationists -- Appalachian Trail -- Biography
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Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
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Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell
Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, -- -1973
Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, -- 1887-1973
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Middle Atlantic States
New England
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Outdoor life
Sound recording
Southern States
Southwestern States
Sports
Sports & Recreations
Travel
Twentieth century
United States
Women conservationists
Women conservationists -- Appalachian Trail -- Biography
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Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, -- -1973
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Hikers
Hikers -- Appalachian Trail
Hikers -- Appalachian Trail -- Biography
History
Middle Atlantic States
New England
Outdoor life
Sound recording
Southern States
Southwestern States
Sports
Twentieth century
United States
Women conservationists
Women conservationists -- Appalachian Trail -- Biography
Audiobooks
Biographies
Electronic books
Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, -- -1973
Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, -- 1887-1973
Hikers
Hikers -- Appalachian Trail
Hikers -- Appalachian Trail -- Biography
History
Middle Atlantic States
New England
Outdoor life
Sound recording
Southern States
Southwestern States
Sports
Twentieth century
United States
Women conservationists
Women conservationists -- Appalachian Trail -- Biography
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Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail / Ben Montgomery
Grandma Gatewood's walk [compact disc] : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail / Ben Montgomery
Grandma Gatewood's Walk The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail / Ben Montgomery
Grandma Gatewood's walk [compact disc] : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail / Ben Montgomery
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Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell
Hikers
History
Nonfiction
Outdoor life
Sports
Sports & Recreations
Travel
Twentieth century
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