Authors: Ben Montgomery
Yes, I am.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Amato, Joseph A.
On Foot: A History of Walking.
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Bryson, Bill.
A Walk in the Woods
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Luxenberg, Larry.
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Marshall, Ian.
Storyline: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail
. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1998.
Matthews, Estivaun, Charles A. Murray, and Pauline Rife.
Gallia County One-Room Schools: The Cradle Years
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Morse, Joseph Laffan.
The Unicorn Book of 1953
. New York: Unicorn Books, Inc. 1954.
Morse, Joseph Laffan.
The Unicorn Book of 1954
. New York: Unicorn Books, Inc. 1955.
Morse, Joseph Laffan.
The Unicorn Book of 1955
. New York: Unicorn Books, Inc. 1956.
Nicholson, Geoff.
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy and Literature of Pedestrianism.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2008.
Seagrave, Kerry.
America on Foot: Walking and Pedestrianism in the 20th Century
. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Shaffer, Earl V.
Walking with Spring: The First Solo Thru-Hike of the Legendary Appalachian Trail.
Harpers Ferry, WV: Appalachian Trail Conference, 1996.
Solnit, Rebecca.
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. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
Swift, Earl. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
BEN MONTGOMERY
is a staff writer at the
Tampa Bay Times
and cofounder of the Auburn Chautauqua, a Southern writers’ collective. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 and has won many other national writing awards. He lives in Florida.
Jacket design: Debbie Berne Design
Cover photo: Gatewood family collection,
courtesy of Lucy Gatewood Seeds
Author photo: John Pendygraft
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