Bold Spirit

This is an AMAZING story that was almost completely lost! Helga and her daughter WALK across the United States in 1896 in order to win $10,000 to pay their mortgage and save their farm. The fact that she left 7 children at home (the youngest was 2yrs) with her husband (recovering from injury) shows......more

I was intrigued by the title and synopsis of this book. As it turned out, it was my own little endurance journey to finish it, but the interesting bits made the high-school-history-report style of the writing tolerable. This was an interesting story, I just wish there was a better version of it. Hun......more

Amazing book,amazing feat! (and feet) This woman walked from Washington State to NYC in the late 1800s with her teenage daughter - WALKED!. Many times there were no roads, and no towns to stop in. They were allowed to have only five dollars in cash each. They had to shoot at men who bothered them. And in......more

Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books In 1896, Helga Estby went for a walk with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Clara. They started off from Spokane, Washington, and ended up in New York City. The story of that walk is the topic of the nonfiction book, Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk......more

How can a story of a woman and her daughter walking across the country in 1897 nearly have been lost to history? Author Linda Lawrence Hunt does an amazing job bringing this story to our awareness. There's heartbreak at almost every turn - not the least of which is that the letters and Helga Estby's......more