Grandma Gatewood's Walk The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61373-499-5, ISBN: 1-61373-499-9
"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 M ..."