Summary of Ben Montgomery's Grandma Gatewood's Walk EPUB

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 Emma Gatewood was 67 years old when she set off to hike the Appalachian Trail in 1955. She was five feet two and weighed 150 pounds, and had no survival training. She was blind without her glasses, and she was utterly unprepared if she faced the wrath of a snowstorm.

#2 Emma Gatewood was prepared for her hike. She had worked at a nursing home and saved her twenty-five-dollar-a-week paycheck until she earned enough quarters to draw the minimum in social security: fifty-two dollars a month. She had started walking in January while living with her son Nelson in Dayton, Ohio.

#3 She was a Cherokee woman who had lost her husband in the war. She never spoke about the town that kept dark secrets, or the night she spent in a jail cell. She told people she was a widow.

#4 The Appalachian Mountains are beautiful and rugged. They were formed more than a billion years ago by metamorphic and igneous rock. The people who stayed lived by ax and plow and gun. They grew beets and tomatoes, pumpkins and squash, field peas and carrots.