Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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Bison book volume BB115
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English
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"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" is the fascinating true tale of life on the American frontier by Elinore Pruitt Stewart. First published in 1914, Stewart's work is a collection of 26 letters written by Stewart from 1909 to 1914 which follow her adventures in Wyoming. Born Elinore Pruitt in 1876 in Chickasaw Nation territory in modern day Oklahoma, her birth father died when she was very young and her mother and step-father both died when Stewart...
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English
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Elinore Pruitt Stewart's book, "Letters of a Woman Homesteader," is a lovely, delightful, and insightful compilation of letters she wrote to a former employer during the earliest part of the twentieth century. Elinore took whatever work she could find as a house cleaner and laundress in Denver, Colorado, after she, unfortunately, lost her husband in a railroad accident in 1909. Supporting herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine, she soon realized...
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English
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Elinore Pruitt Stewart's book, "Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader," is a lovely, delightful, and insightful compilation of letters she wrote to a former employer, Mrs. Coney, during the earliest part of the twentieth century. This book was published in response to the great popularity of her first book, Letters of a Woman Homesteader.
Elinore took whatever work she could find as a house cleaner and laundress in Denver, Colorado,...