A Long Walk Across America
What drove three women to hike across the country to San Francisco in 1915?
10 min readSep 25, 2021
“We’ll foot it to the fair or faint.”
On March 18, 1915, three young women, Ruth Harsley, Ethel Rockwell, and Maud Bridson gathered in front of Chicago City Hall. Accompanied by Frisco Jack, a Scotch Collie adopted from the local pound, the trio were about to hike…
