| Letters of a Woman Homesteader Revised Edition Contributor(s): Stewart, Elinore Pruitt (Author), West, Jessamyn (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0803251939 ISBN-13: 9780803251939 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1990 Annotation: 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."
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Literary Collections | Letters - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 88020764 |
| Lexile Measure: 1070 |
| Series: Women of the West |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - Wyoming - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |