The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco, and Why it Matters Today by Wayne Curtis

The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco, and Why it Matters Today

Wayne Curtis

256 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel adventurous informative medium-paced
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In 1909, Edward Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, covering around 40 miles a day and greeted by wildly cheering audiences in every city. The New York Times called it the "first bona-fide walk . . . across the American continent,...

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