https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/tscpl/rss/search?query=Montgomery%2C%20Ben&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeFri, 13 Mar 2026 01:31:24 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C641107https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C641107Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/641107112BKThe Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trailenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781613747186/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C824142https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C824142Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/824142112EBOOKThe Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trailenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781613747216/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1632616https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1632616Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1632616980EBOOKThe Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trailenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781613747216/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C810756https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C810756Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/810756112ABenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781494527938/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C1044304https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C1044304Invalid Datehttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1044304112BOOK_CLUB_KITGrandma Gatewood's Walk : The Inspiring Story Of The Woman Who Saved The Appalachian Trailundhttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781613734995/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C1102495https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C1102495Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1102495112BKHow A Freed Slave and A Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow Southenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316535540/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C976678https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C976678Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/976678112BKAn American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depressionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316438063/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C848295https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S112C848295Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/848295112BKThe Story of An Unlikely Hero of World War IIenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781613734308/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world — backwards.
Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed his family on wages he earned digging ditches in the Texas sun, Plennie decided it was time to do something extraordinary — something to resurrect the spirit of adventure and optimism he felt he'd lost. He decided to walk around the world — backwards.
In The Man Who Walked Backward, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery charts Plennie's backwards trek across the America that gave rise to Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, and the New Deal. With the Dust Bowl and Great Depression as a backdrop, Montgomery follows Plennie across the Atlantic through Germany, Turkey, and beyond, and details the daring physical feats, grueling hardships, comical misadventures, and hostile foreign police he encountered along the way. A remarkable and quirky slice of Americana, The Man Who Walked Backward paints a rich and vibrant portrait of a jaw-dropping period of history.]]>https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4003647https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4003647Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4003647980EAUDIOBOOKAn American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depressionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781478920953/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=

Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance and very likely saved the trail from extinction.
]]>https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2062735https://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2062735Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://tscpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2062735980EAUDIOBOOKThe Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trailenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781494527938/MC.GIF&client=topep&type=xw12&oclc=