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Changing America (Temple University Press, 1975).

13. “Walk for $10,000,” Chicago Journal, November 7, 1896, p. 1.

14. Ibid.

15. “Women Walkers Reach Plymouth Saturday Night,” Plymouth Republic, November 19, 1896, p. 6.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. “Walking for Pay,” Fort Wayne Sentinel, November 18, 1896, p. 1.

19. Ibid.

20. “On a Long Walk,” Idaho Daily Statesman, June 5, 1896, p. 3.


14 | A RUSH TO THE FINISH

1. “Mother and Daughter,” Ohio State Journal, November 24, 1896, p. 3.

2. H.W. Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 160–176.

3. C. Schwantes, Coxey’s Army: An American Odyssey (Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1994), 45.

4. Ibid., 55.

5. Ibid., 237–38.

6. H.W. Brands, The Reckless Decade, 173.

7. C. Schwantes, Coxey’s Army, 177–185.

8. Ibid., 260.

9. “Women Walkers,” Minneapolis Tribune, June 2, 1897, p. 4.

10. “Coast to Coast,” Minneapolis Times, June 2, 1897, p. 5.

11. “The White House: First Ladies’ Gallery,” http://www.white-house.gov/history/firstladies [2002].

12. “Coast to Coast,” Minneapolis Times; Darillyn Bahr, “Coast to Coast,” School Research Report, Wilbur, Wash., 1977.

13. “Spokane Callers at McKinleys,” Spokesman-Review, December 1, 1896.

14. Ibid.

15. “A Long, Long Walk,” Alliance Daily Review, November 30, 1896, p. 4.

16. Ibid.


15 | THE IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENS

1. “Walking for $10,000,” Harrisburg Telegraph, December 5, 1896, p. 1.

2. “Fair Tramps from the West,” Lebanon Evening News, December 19, 1896, p. 1.

3. “Walked from Pacific Coast,” New York Twice-a-Week World, December 24, 1896, p. 6.

4. Ibid.

5. “Two Women Tramps,” Lebanon Daily News, December 19, 1896, p. 2.

6. “Afoot from Spokane,” Reading Times, December 19, 1896, p. 2.

7. Ibid.

8. “Walked from Pacific Coast,” p. 6.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. “Came from Spokane Afoot,” New York Times, December 24, 1896, p. 9.

12. “Two Women’s Long Tramp,” New York Herald, December 23, 1896, p. 10.

13. “The Estby’s Reach New York,” Spokesman-Review, December 24, 1896, p. 2.

14. “Mrs. Estby and Her Daughter Walked Armed from Spokane,” World, December 25, 1896, p. 2.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.


16 | HEARTBREAK AT THE

MICA CREEK HOMESTEAD

1. Nancy Woloch, Women and the American Experience (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), 236.

2. Ibid., 234.

3. “Coast to Coast,” Minneapolis Times, June 2, 1897, p. 4.

4. Ibid.

5. “Auction,” Standard Union, January 12, 1897, p. 1.

6. “Walked Here from Spokane: Mrs. Estby Tells a Harrowing Tale of Eight Years of Tribulation,” Sun, May 2, 1897, p. 1.

7. Arlene Coulson, “Research Notes on Helga Estby’s Family,” Whitworth College History Project, 1986.

8. “Walked Here from Spokane,” p. 1.

9. Ida Estby, Oral History at Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Wash., 1973.

10. “Letters,” Family Artifacts, 1893.

11. R.N. Tooker, The Disease of Children and their Homeopathic Treatment: Textbook for Students, Colleges, and Practitioners, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Gross & Delbridge Company, 1898).

12. Thelma Portch, first interview by author, Almira, Wash., 1983.

13. Ibid.

14. “Women Travelers Ask for Aid,” New York Daily Tribune, May 2, 1897, p. 8.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. “Walked Here from Spokane,” p. 1.

19. T. Portch, first interview.


17 | HOMEWARD BOUND

1. “Coast to Coast,” Minneapolis Times, June 2, 1897, p. 4.

2. Ibid.

3. “Women Walkers,” Minneapolis Tribune, June 2, 1897, p. 4.

4. “Coast to Coast,” p. 4.

5. “Women Walkers,” p. 4

6. Ibid.

7. “Women Walkers,” p. 4.

8. “Coast to Coast,” p. 4.

10. Ibid.

11. “Women Walkers,” p. 4.

12. “Coast to Coast,” p. 4.

13. “On a Long Walk,” Idaho Daily Statesman, June 3, 1896, p. 3.

14. R.C. Sahr, Consumer Price Index Conversion Factors: 1800–2012. Political Science Department, Oregon State University, April 2, 2002.

15. “Two Women’s Long Walk,” San Francisco Examiner, May 5, 1896, p. 3.

16. “Are Walking for Wages,” Walla Walla Union, May 17, 1896, p. 4.

17. “Fair Tramps from West,” Lebanon Daily News, December 19, 1896, p. 1.

18. Lyndia Carter, “Ogden

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