The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity and appeared on TV and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. 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. 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. 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. 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. You can read this before Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail written by Ben Montgomery which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery
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