02107cam a2200361 i 4500 503816084 TxGeo 20210611120000.0 201104s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020048732 9780525619321 hbk. 0525619321 hbk. (OCoLC)1194871191 TxGeo rda Letts, Elizabeth. The ride of her life : the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America / Elizabeth Letts. First edition. New York, NY : Ballantine Books, 2021. xii, 319 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years to live--but only if she 'lived restfully.' ... Instead, she decided she wanted to see the Pacific Ocean just once before she died. She bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men's dungarees, loaded up her horse, and headed out from Maine in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. She had no map, no GPS, no phone. But she had her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness"-- Provided by publisher. 20210621. Wilkins, Mesannie Travel. Horsemen and horsewomen Travel United States Biography. Travel with horses United States. Overland journeys to the Pacific. Biographies. QS5