Grandma Gatewood Ohio s Legendary Hiker

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Grandma Gatewood Ohio s Legendary Hiker

Author	: Bette Lou Higgins
File Size	: 51,7 Mb
Publisher	: Unknown
Language	: English
Release Date	: 02 May 2024
ISBN	: 1982970987
Pages	: 78 pages

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Grandma Gatewood Ohio s Legendary Hiker by Bette Lou Higgins Book PDF Summary

Read the fascinating story of "Grandma" Emma Gatewood who became the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail in 1955 at the age of 67!Emma survived poverty, an abusive marriage, raised 11 children, hiked the Appalachian Trail three times, hiked the Oregon Trail, and helped establish the Buckeye Trail. By the time she died in 1973 at the age of 85, she had hiked 10,000 miles!

Grandma Gatewood Ohio s Legendary Hiker by Bette Lou Higgins,Kelly Boyer Sagert

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When Grandma Gatewood Took a Hike by Michelle Houts

It took her two tries, but in 1955, sixty-seven-year-old Emma “Grandma” Gatewood became the first woman to solo hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one thru-hike. Gatewood, who left an abusive marriage after raising eleven children, has become a legend for those who hike the trail, and in

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Grandma Gatewood s Walk by Ben Montgomery

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

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Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail by Jennifer Thermes

Emma Gatewood’s life was far from easy. In rural Ohio, she managed a household of 11 kids alongside a less-than-supportive husband. One day, at age 67, she decided to go for a nice long walk . . . and ended up completing the Appalachian Trail. With just the clothes on her back and a

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The Barefoot Sisters Southbound by Lucy Letcher,Susan Letcher

"At the ages of 25 and 21, Lucy and Susan Letcher set out to thru-hike the entire 2,175 miles of the Appalachian Trail--barefoot. Quickly earning themselves the moniker of the Barefoot Sisters, the two begin their journey at Mount Katahdin and spend eight months making their way to Springer Mountain in Georgia. As

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Grandma Gatewood s Walk book Club Kit by Ben Montgomery

"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,

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Summary of Ben Montgomery s Grandma Gatewood s Walk by Everest Media,

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Emma Gatewood was 67 years old when she set off to hike the Appalachian Trail in 1955. She was five feet two and weighed 150 pounds, and had no survival training. She was blind without her glasses, and she

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Follow the Blue Blazes by Connie Pond,Robert J. Pond

Many changes have taken place in the decade since Follow the Blue Blazes was first published, changes in the trails themselves and in the way we hike them. The Buckeye Trail still wends its way around the state of Ohio, following the course marked out by the characteristic blue blazes

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