Everybody knows that Earl Shaffer was the first person to hike the Appalachian Trail. He then went on to publish Walking With Spring…but not until about thirty-odd years later. In the meantime, many other AT memoir books were published.
I’m wondering which of them was the first AT book. Ray Baker’s Campfires Along The Appalachian Trail is probably in the top five alongside Sutton’s The Appalachian Trail and the Rodale 2 Volume book Hiking The Appalachian Trail.
But which is number one? Any guesses?
_Kineo Kid_