Inez Ross To Sign Books at Island Bookstore Wednesday

Michigan native Inez Ross will visit the Island Bookstore on Mackinac Island to sign copies of her books Wednesday, June 8, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. She is the author of “Without a Wagon on the Sante Fe Trail” and was one of five women who received national recognition for completing a hike of the 800-mile-long trail on foot. It stretches from Franklin, Missouri, to Sante Fe, New Mexico, and was a trading route between the United States and Mexico from 1821 to 1880. The old wagon route was made obsolete when the railroad reached Sante Fe.

The women walked the route bit by bit, over a period of eight years, reporting each hike in newspaper articles that have been compiled into the paperback book.