Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America-Fast Shipping

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Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders,they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb.
Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women’s achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.