The ride of her life: the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America

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Letts, Elizabeth
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"In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years to live--but only if she 'lived restfully.' ... Instead, she decided she wanted to see the Pacific Ocean just once before she died. She bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men's dungarees, loaded up her horse, and headed out from Maine in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. She had no map, no GPS, no phone. But she had her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness"--
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Horsemen and horsewomen -- Travel -- United States -- Biography
Overland journeys to the Pacific
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Wilkins, Mesannie -- Travel
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The ride of her life : the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America
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The ride of her life
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