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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Linda Lawrence Hunt article, 1995]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Telling about the cross-country hike (4,600 miles) by Helga Estby (age 36) and her daughter Clara (18), May 4-Dec. 23, 1896. Helga was born in 1860 in Oslo, her family emigrating to Manistee, Mich. When she was 11. After marrying Ole Estby the couple homesteaded in Minnesota and in 1887 (with 8 children) moved to Spokane, Wash. Poor health, unemployment and a large family inspired Helga to seek the prize of $10,000 for the hike offered by a New York woman. However, the offer was withdrawn (on the grounds that delays caused by accidents could not be considered), but then was made conditional on Helga&#039;s writing a book about the trip. Embittered and depressed, Helga never mentioned the trip again. After her husband&#039;s death in 1916 she began secretly to write an account, but a daughter-in-law burned it after her death, 1942.; Hunt is an Associate Professor of English at Whitworth College in Spokane, and a free-lance writer. Gift of the author, Hunt&#039;s book on the subject, Bold Spirit: Helga Estby&#039;s forgotten walk across Victorian America (298 p.) was published in 2003 by the University of Idaho Press. A clipping of an article about Hunt and her book (Spokman-Review Apr. 28, 2003) is included here.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Location: 13/A/6]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1995]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1 folder]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Clippings]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[P1578]]></dcterms:identifier>
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