Gatewood Emma Rowena (w1967)
Emma Gatewood (Stratness)

Gatewood Emma Rowena (w1967)

  • Description: Emma Rowena Gatewood was a notable hiker. In 1955, at the age of 67, she became the first woman to hike the 3'489 kilometers (2'168 miles) of the Appalachian Trail from Mount Oglethorpe, Georgia, to Mount Katahdin, Maine, in one season and solo. She repeated this feat in 1960 and 1963, also walking the Oregon Trail and visiting every continental state in the United States on foot
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Grandma Gatewood
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1887-1973
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
  • Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Gatewood
  • Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5595463
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Gatewood Sullivan L., Rowena Caldwell Gatewood E., Pagyn Alexander, Grandma Gatewood walks across America, Pine Needle Press, 1993.

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