03503cam a2200445 i 4500 2046826873 TxAuBib 20250317120000.0 130916s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013037551 9781613734995 trade pbk. $17.99 1613734999 trade pbk. $17.99 9781613747186 cloth $26.95 1613747187 cloth $26.95 (OCoLC)858940255 TxAuBib rda Montgomery, Ben. Grandma Gatewood's walk [Print] : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail / Ben Montgomery. First edition. Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, [2014] 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index. Machine generated contents note: 1.Pick Up Your Feet -- 2.Go Home, Grandma -- 3.Rhododendron and Rattlesnakes -- 4.Wild Dogs -- 5.How'd You Get in Here? -- 6.Our Fight -- 7.Lady Tramp -- 8.Attention -- 9.Good Hard Life -- 10.Storm -- 11.Shelter -- 12.I'll Get There -- 13.Destruction -- 14.So Much Behind -- 15.All by Myself -- 16.Return to Rainbow Lake -- 17.Aloneness More Complete than Ever -- 18.Again -- 19.Pioneer Woman -- 20.Blazing -- 21.Monuments. 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, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. By September 1955 she stood atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin, sang “America, the Beautiful,” and proclaimed, “I said I’ll do it, and I’ve done it.” Driven by a painful marriage, Grandma Gatewood not only hiked the trail alone, she was the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times. At age seventy-one, she hiked the 2,000-mile Oregon Trail. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity, and appeared on TV with Groucho Marx and Art Linkletter. The public attention she brought to the trail 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 interviewed surviving family members and hikers Gatewood met along the trail, unearthed historic newspaper and magazine articles, and was given full access to Gatewood’s own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence. Grandma Gatewood’s Walk shines a fresh light on one of America’s most celebrated hikers. 20250317. National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2014.) Gatewood, Emma Rowena Caldwell, 1887-1973. Hikers Appalachian Trail Biography. Women conservationists Appalachian Trail Biography. TRAVEL / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks. TRAVEL / United States / General. SPORTS & RECREATION / History. Appalachian Trail History. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. SPORTS & RECREATION / Hiking. TXTLL