Letters of a Woman Homesteader; With Illus. by N.C. Wyeth

Stewart, Elinore Pruitt

History

Franklin Classics

"Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of"(Christian Science Monitor), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who set out in 1909 to prove that a woman could ranch. Stewart's captivating missives from her homestead in Wyoming bring to full life the beauty, isolation, and joys of working the prairie.

Letters Of A Woman Homesteader

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Mariner Books

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.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)

Dover Publications

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Large Print Edition)

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Letters of a Woman Homesteader

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Letters on an Elk Hunt: By a Woman Homesteader

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Letters of a Woman Homesteader (American Biography Series)

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A continuation of Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Letters on an Elk Hunt is set in the same corner of southwestern Wyoming, the time is the fall of 1914, and (despite the title) Mrs. Stewart is far less concerned with elk hunting than with people—old friends and new acquaintances—and with the land in which she found so much beauty. Her letters, as Jessamyn West said of the earlier volume, "are, in fact (though not that alone), a collection of short stories." She added that "what makes these letters so good are not these stories, but the character of the storyteller, of Elinore Stewart herself. Her letters endure and give pleasure because she does what the great letter-writers do: she reveals herself. . . . It is the woman in this vanished landscape, the homesteader with her enormous vitality, humor, and tenderness who holds our attention." Jessamyn West's wish to know more about the author herself is fulfilled in the foreword to Letters on an Elk Hunt—an appreciative biographical sketch, incorporating material from some of Mrs. Stewart's unpublished letters as well as the reminiscences of her children.Elizabeth Fuller Ferris, of the Wilderness Women Project, Missoula, Montana, is the writer and producer of Burntfork, a film for public television funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities based upon the life of Elinore Pruitt Stewart.

Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader

Ferris, Elizabeth Fuller

Univ of Nebraska Pr

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Letters of a Woman Homesteader; With Illus. by N.C. Wyeth

Letters Of A Woman Homesteader

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Large Print Edition)

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Letters on an Elk Hunt: By a Woman Homesteader

Letters on an Elk Hunt: By a Woman Homesteader

Letters on an Elk Hunt: By a Woman Homesteader

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (American Biography Series)

Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader