false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173999786m/352136.jpg 352136 5 In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. <br>Hoping to win the wager and save her family&#8217;s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara&#8217;s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb. <br>Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story. 342364 2003 Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America total:282|5:59|4:112|3:91|2:17|1:3| 282 1053 394 90 5 3 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 17:41:03 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 19:12:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 18:38:08 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 18:41:17 -0700 2008 This woman walked from Washington State to NYC in the late 1800s with her teenage daughter - WALKED!.
Many times there were no roads, and no towns to stop in.
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Helga Estby and her oldest daughter took a walking trek from Spokane, WA to New York City in 1897, on the premise they'd receive $10,000. ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 06 21:10:30 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 21:16:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 04:39:57 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 04:54:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 09:07:12 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 22:12:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 17:37:42 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 21:30:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 19 15:11:57 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 05 09:15:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 16:37:29 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 16:38:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 19:25:42 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 08:56:32 -0700 2008 Bold Spirit is the true story of a woman and her 18 year old daughter who walked from Spokane to New York in 1896. The woman, Helga Estby, was aiming for a $10,000 prize offered by an anonymous donor, with the intention of promoting a new style of woman's dress.

Sadly, practically no docu...more...]]> 4 0 true false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 12:28:24 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 02 13:12:26 -0800 2009 1 This amazing story gives us two female characters who forsake gender roles in an effort to keep their family together. They travel on foot through parts of the world they've never seen and acquaint themselves with strangers both famous and common, wealthy and humble, populist and conservative. They ...

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