The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

by Elizabeth Letts

Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion presents a "heartwarming and] engaging folk-hero biography" (Kirkus Reviews) of a woman who fulfilled her lifelong wish to see the Pacific Ocean by riding her horse across America.

" Letts] vividly portrays an audacious woman whose optimism, courage, and good humor are to be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525619321
• ISBN13: 9780525619321
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The original book

The Last of the Saddle Tramps by Messannie Wilkins written by the woman who actually did it.

Lots of history, more than just the story your expecting

There is so much history from 1950's US mixed into this story. I have to admit I skimmed by most of it just wanting to read the story of her travels, but a very educational book if you absorb the info on every page. A slice of Americana represented in a way seldom seen in literature.