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In 1896, 36-year-old Helga Estby and her 18-year-old daughter, Clara, walked across America. Their 3500-mile __1__ from Spokane to Manhattan was physically discouraging. Dressed in long skirts and thin leather shoes, __2__ only a small bundle of belongings, the women found their endurance and courage __3__ daily by tramps, rattlesnakes, deserts, snowy mountain and flooded rivers.
The greatest hardship, __4__, is shown in the title of Linda Lawrence Hunt's book,“Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America.”The woman's __5__ to leave her family-- including two children younger than 4-- for seven months __6__ such anger and grief that her daughters, __7__ Estby's death in 1942, __8__ their mother's writings about her incredible journey.
The 1893 depression（大萧条）had left the Estby family __9__ seemingly insurmountable（不可克服的）bills.“ __10__ on paying taxes, Helga was ready to do anything to __11__ the Mica Creek farm and home built by her husband, Ole, for their family of nine children,” Hunt writes. A $10000 award for being the first woman to travel unaccompanied（无陪伴的）by a __12__ across the country __13__ Helga from her Eastern Washington home. The journey was to __14__ women's hardness and courage.
Hunt __15__ learned of the trip from an eighth-grader's seven-page __16__ in the Washington State History Day contest.“Grandma Walks From Coast To Coast”was __17__ on two newspaper clippings about the boy's great-great-grandmother; they were the only things saved when Estby's daughters burned her __18__. Hunt constructed her story from newspaper accounts, historical societies' records, public __19__, and what little information and memories __20__.
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