Ben Montgomery

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail (2014)

I don't know how I'd managed to not know about Emma Gatewood prior to picking up this book. She was quite well known back in the later 1950's for what was then a singular feat, through walking the entire Appalachian Trail ... In fact the first woman, and certainly the oldest person to attempt it,...