Letters of a woman homesteader

The Resource Letters of a woman homesteader

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Letters of a woman homesteader

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by Elinore Pruitt Stewart ; foreword by Jessamyn West

Language

eng

Summary

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."--

Assigning source

Amazon.com

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

978.7/031/0924
B

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

LC call number

F761

LC item number

.S8 1989

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult

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The work Letters of a woman homesteader represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.