from jbarr5

The Story of Grandma Gatewood Was interested in reading this because it's about the Appalachian trail which I've been on a few feet of it in TN and MA. At 67, in 1955 she left Ohio and took a bus to WV and onto Georgia where she started her trail hiking. Love hearing of all the nature and can pic...

from sandra.k.heinzman

What a good book! Emma Gatewood was quite a woman. She was the mother of 11 and a victim of horrible physical abuse by her husband, until she finally got the strength to leave him and her remaining children behind. When she decided to hike the trail, in 1955, she didn't tell anyone where she was ...

from roy

grandma Gatewood stayed and my grandparents house.

from BoundTogetherForGood

Grandma Gatewood led a hard life. Once her many children were grown, she set out to walk the Appalachia Trail. I think she competed it a total of three times, as well as walking the Oregon Trail. She showed strength of character.

from mapg.genie

Great book about a determined woman in her 60s who decided to hike the Appalachian Trail in the 1950s when the trail was less traveled and barely marked. Information she had read indicated that it had good signage and equipped with proper shelters. What she found was a very different story, as ha...