Letters of a Woman Homesteader

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Elinore (Pruitt ) Stewart

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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 is a must-read for students and historians of the American West.

Release date Australia

September 1st, 2021

Author

Elinore (Pruitt ) Stewart

Pages

156

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

152x229x8

ISBN-13

9781312679399

Product ID

36245741

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