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1200 miles in 90 days. On horseback. Through unmapped territory. Through blizzards.  In her fifties.  Through Canadian wilderness. In the 1930s. With 12 carrier pigeons in case of emergency. To collect rare plants. This was how Mary Gibson Henry (1884 - 1967) rolled Henry’s road to becoming one of the great botanical adventurers of her, or any, age, was a long delayed one, but when it came, it came with a vengeance. She was born in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, in 1884, to a moth