04808cam a2200781 4500 715476803 TxAuBib 20230322120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780525619338 052561933X B08HL9G6ZR Amazon c313e13c-617c-4360-b03f-1a9b9beb1de7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5727538 OverDrive (Product ID) 574528 574528 574528 TxAuBib Letts, Elizabeth. The Ride of Her Life [Libby] : The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America. Random House Publishing Group, 2021. Animals. Biography. Friendship. horse. journey. american history. women. Inspirational. kindness. Horses. Travel. biographies. History. True stories. horse book. Bucket list. horse books. history books. gifts for history buffs. mom gifts. inspirational books for women. gifts for women. mom books. gifts for her. horse gifts. history buff gifts. horse gifts for women. Elizabeth Letts. uplifting gifts for women. annie wilkins book. annie wilkins story. last of the saddle tramps. mesannie wilkins. the last of the saddle tramps. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6521kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion “The gift Elizabeth Letts has is that she makes you feel you are the one taking this trip. This is a book we can enjoy always but especially need now.”—Elizabeth Berg, author of The Story of Arthur Truluv In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor’s advice to move into the county charity home. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men’s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didn’t even have a map. But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness. Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways. Between 1954 and 1956, the three travelers pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by them at terrifying speeds. Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through America’s big cities and small towns. Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities—from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers—a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher. In a decade when car ownership nearly tripled, when television’s influence was expanding fast, when homeowners began locking their doors, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-03-21 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c313e13c-617c-4360-b03f-1a9b9beb1de7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c313e13c-617c-4360-b03f-1a9b9beb1de7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c313e13c-617c-4360-b03f-1a9b9beb1de7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)