Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America - Hardcover 2004
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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America Bold Spirit Hardcover - September 1, 2004 by Linda Hunt Helga Estby and her daughter Clara left Spokane, Washington, in May 1896 to walk to New York City on a $10,000 wager. The money was needed to prevent foreclosure of their mortgage, hopefully saving the family homestead. Helga was a Norwegian immigrant who married young, bore nine children, and endured fruitless years on the harsh Minnesota prairie before moving West. She a