The triumphant True Story of a Woman who rode her Horse Across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion The gift Elizabeth Letts has is that she makes you feel you are the one taking this trip.
This is a book we can enjoy always but especially need now.--Elizabeth Berg, author o.
The triumphant True Story of a Woman who rode her Horse Across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion The gift Elizabeth Letts has is that she makes you feel you are the one taking this trip.
In a decade when car ownership nearly tripled, when television\'s influence was expanding fast, when homeowners began locking Their doors, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world.
She received many offers--a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher.
Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities--from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx.
Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through America\'s big cities and small towns.
Between 1954 and 1956, they pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by them at terrifying speeds.
Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways.
But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness.
Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didn\'t even have a map.
Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men\'s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow.
She ignored her doctor\'s advice to move into the county charity home.
But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died.
She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live.
This is a book we can enjoy always but especially need now.--Elizabeth Berg, author of The Story of Arthur Truluv In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey.
The triumphant True Story of a Woman who rode her Horse Across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion The gift Elizabeth Letts has is that she makes you feel you are the one taking this trip
