A Woman to Know: Gertrude Sanford Legendre

Oct 03, 2019

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I don't contemplate life, I live it. — Gertrude Sanford Legendre

(image via Wikimedia)

Gertie’s family raised her to be a quiet, well-mannered lady of Upper East Side society — but the hot-tempered explorer had other plans.

At age 18, just two years after her high-society debut, she abandoned New York for the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. She became an avid bi…

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