Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

As a young widow with a small child, Elinore Pruitt left Denver in 1909 and set out for Wyoming, where she hoped to buy a ranch. Determined to prove that a lone woman could survive the hardships of homesteading, she initially worked as a housekeeper and hired hand for a neighbor -- a kind but taciturn Scottish bachelor whom she eventually married.
Spring and summers were hard, she concedes, and were taken up with branding, farming, doctoring cattle, and other chores. But with the arrival of fall, Pruitt found time to take her young daughter on camping trips and serve her neighbors as midwife, doctor, teacher, Santa Claus, and friend. She provides a candid portrait of these and other experiences in twenty-six letters written to a friend back in Denver.
Described by the Wall Street Journal as warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative, this unsurpassed classic of American frontier life -- enhanced with original illustrations by N. C. Wyeth -- will charm today's audience as much as it fascinated readers when it was first published in 1914.

Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933), author of Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Letters on an Elk Hunt, is America's most famous lady homesteader. Soon to be released...

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ISBN 13	9780486451428
ISBN 10	0486451429
Title	Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Author	Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Series	Dover Books On Americana
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2006-08-25
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.