Name: letters of a woman homesteader
SKU: 2543793
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Author: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt ; West, Jessamyn
ISBN: 9780803251939

Type

Physical Book

Author

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Preface by

Jessamyn West

Publisher

Bison Books

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.7x1.5 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0803251939

ISBN13

9780803251939

Synopsis "letters of a woman homesteader"

Elinore Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde Stewart, whose ranch was near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, and within six weeks she married him. "Ranch work seemed to require that we be married first and do our sparking afterward," she wrote Juliet Coney, her former employer. She maintained her independence by filing on a quarter section adjacent to her husband's land and proving it up herself. Her delightful letters, written from the time of her arrival until 1913, authentically depict an Old West that, as Jessamyn West notes in her foreword, has been "progressively obscured by those who portray it most often." The critically acclaimed 1980 film Heartland was based on Elinore Pruitt Stewart's letters and journals.

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