Grandma Gatewood's walk : the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
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Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2014].
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Book
Edition
First edition.
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9781613734995 (paper), 9781613747186 (hbk.), 1613747187 (hbk.)
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277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Published
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2014].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781613734995 (paper), 9781613747186 (hbk.), 1613747187 (hbk.)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index.
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"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... this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. In September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. 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. Author Ben Montgomery was given unprecedented access to Gatewood's own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence, and interviewed surviving family members and those she met along her hike, all to answer the question so many asked: Why did she do it?"--www.Amazon.com.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Montgomery, B. (2014). Grandma Gatewood's walk: the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail (First edition.). Chicago Review Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Montgomery, Ben. 2014. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail. Chicago Review Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Montgomery, Ben. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail Chicago Review Press, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Montgomery, Ben. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail First edition., Chicago Review Press, 2014.

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