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

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Emma Gatewood told her circle of relatives she was once going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and not more 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 “The usa, 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 on my own, she was once 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 gave the impression on TV with Groucho Marx and Art Linkletter. The public attention she brought to the trail was once unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction.

            Writer Ben Bernard Law Montgomery interviewed surviving members of the family and hikers Gatewood met along the trail, unearthed historic newspaper and magazine articles, and was once given full get entry to to Gatewood’s own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence. Grandma Gatewood’s Walk shines a fresh light on one of The usa’s most celebrated hikers. 

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