Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail Ben Montgomery Author: Ben Montgomery

About Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

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. Type: Hardback Page number: 288 Genre: Biography: Historical, Political & Military Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 Keywords: war book, war story books, war books

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