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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 24: Zoe Gayton – Woman Transcontinental Walker
Description: By Davy CrockettÂ
Both a podcast episode and a full article
On May 10, 2019, America will celebrated the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. This is the third article in a series to recognize some historic accomplishments walking or running across the American continent. In the previous articles, the history was given of the 1855 walk across South America by Nathaniel Holmes Bishop, and the story of Dakota Bob was shared as an a example of the many fraudulent characters who would claim to walk across America.
Women got into the game too! The most famous of the transcontinental woman...