Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Letters of a Woman Homesteader 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.

Author: Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 07/27/2017
Pages: 68
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.14d
ISBN13: 9781973852025
ISBN10: 1973852020
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics

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