In 1955 Emma Gatewood told her children she was going for a walk and became the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail alone, at sixty-seven, in Keds. Montgomery reconstructs both the walk and the marriage she was walking away from.
In 1955 Emma Gatewood told her children she was going for a walk and became the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail alone, at sixty-seven, in Keds. Montgomery reconstructs both the walk and the marriage she was walking away from.
