Belle’s Reviews > The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement > Status Update

For eight weeks, nearly sixty-year-old Clara walked, sometimes shushing through prairie grasses as tall as her cheeks, sometimes ascending steep, rocky hills with the vigor of a woman half her age. Not only did she walk the entire seven hundred miles to Colorado, she also prepared three full meals a day in between walks for two dozen ravenous people.