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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. 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. 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....
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Pub. Date
2002
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English
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This book is a concise, backpack-friendly guide that explains the origins of some 1100 place names hikers come across as they make their way along the Appalachian Trail. Filled with fascinating facts, surprising stories, and colorful trivia, it also offers insight into the trail's long and legendary history, as well as the history of the wilderness preservation movement, and of the country itself. Entries are arranged alphabetically for easy reference....
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Three-time thru-hiker J. R. Tate explores the traditions and lore of the Appalachian Trail: The thru-hiker who began his hike by parachuting onto Springer Mountain The trail town that sentenced an elephant to death Yogi-ing strategies Trail hermits Old Hog Greer and Uncle Nick Grindstaff Murders on the AT Ghosts in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
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