5/28/2023 0 Comments The true story of arthur truluvBut she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness.Īnnie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways. Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads she didn’t even have a map. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men’s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. She ignored her doctor’s advice to move into the county charity home. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. This is a book we can enjoy always but especially need now.”-Elizabeth Berg, author of The Story of Arthur Truluv “The gift Elizabeth Letts has is that she makes you feel you are the one taking this trip. The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion.
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