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2 stories matching gayton

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  1. Zoe Gayton Bets the World She Can Walk It — Then Cheats at the First Tunnel

    A week out of Seattle on her round-the-world wager, the pedestrian record-breaker was told she could not walk the two miles of the Northern Pacific's Stampede Tunnel. A locomotive pulled up. Everybody swore secrecy. A newspaper man heard anyway.

    Jun 21, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSouth Prairie, Pierce CountyLocal Legends · Strange But True

  2. The Woman Who Bet $20,000 She Could Walk Around the World

    Champion pedestrian Zoe Gayton stops in Seattle before a globe-circling wager—armed with walking shoes, two revolvers, and a cocker spaniel.

    May 18, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyStrange But True

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