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Here are five postcards showing Mr. and Mrs. Dwight H. Woolf, also known as the Walking Woolfs. They wrote a book titled Tramping and Camping published by S. I. Meseraull & Son, Kansas City, Kansas. The book tells of Mr. Woolf's failing health in 1909, when he was a 107 pound music publisher. His doctor fold him he must get outside to revive his health. With his wife's encouragement, they started walking first to the Ozarks and back to Kansas City, Kansas, three hundred miles; then a thousand mile trip to New York, and finally an eight thousand mile walk through the South and East and back to Kansas City, Kansas. They were accompanied by their horse Dolly and dog Don. The book is available at the Kansas State Historical Society
Date: 1909
Item Number: 440207
Call Number: B Woolf, Dwight H. *1-5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440207
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Leisure activities - Hiking
Date - 1900s - 1909
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
Places - Cities and towns - Kansas City
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Other States - Idaho
Places - Other States - Mississippi
Places - Other States - South Carolina
Places - Other States - Virginia
Type of Material - Postcards
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