02239cam a2200421 i 4500 551158284 TxAuBib 20220315120000.0 210315s2021||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780593414064 0593414063 (OCoLC)1244273836 TxAuBib rda Letts, Elizabeth. The ride of her life [LARGE PRINT] : the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America / Elizabeth Letts. First large print edition. New York : Random House Large Print, [2021] xii, 491 pages (large print) : maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier cri rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-465) and index. Prologue -- Living color -- Live restfully -- Tax money -- The search -- Leaving home -- Cars -- Strangers -- Jailbirds -- Veterans -- Face in a box -- Horse people and dog people -- The checkered game of life -- Odds -- Party time -- The Clover Leaf Inn -- Log cabins -- A new friend -- Lost -- Maps -- Last of the saddle tramps -- Poison -- Molehills and mountains -- The Red Desert -- Winter again -- A long road -- Tough as nails -- The Golden State -- Epilogue. "The true story of Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean."-- Provided by publisher. The true story of 63-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins who, in 1954, rode her horse across America, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean. 20220315. Wilkins, Mesannie Travel. Horsemen and horsewomen Travel United States Biography. Travel with horses United States. Overland journeys to the Pacific. Large type books. Travel writing. Biographies. TXKAR