This is a story about an explorer... Not Columbus, who sailed over 4,000 miles to reach the new world, nor Magellan who covered over 42,000 miles to circumnavigate the globe, nor Neil Armstrong, who in Apollo 11, traveled nearly a million statue miles to reach the moon and back. No, this is a story about a four-foot eleven-inch woman who traveled, over a 40-year period, within a 9-mile radius within one county in southern Iowa during the first third of the 20th century. This is a story about a woman who was born in 1893 in Ringgold County, Iowa; a woman who survives, at the age of five, a...