Letters of a woman homesteader
Series:
Bison book volume BB115.
Publisher:
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Pub. Date:
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Language:
English
Lexile measure:
1070L
Description
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. Described by the Wall Street Journal as "warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative," this unsurpassed classic of American frontier life -- enhanced with original illustrations by N. C. Wyeth -- will charm today's audience as much as it fascinated readers when it was first published in 1914.
Subjects
Subjects
Electronic books
Frontier and pioneer life
Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming
History
Pioneers
Pioneers -- Wyoming -- Biography
Pioneers -- Wyoming -- Correspondence
Ranch life
Ranch life -- Wyoming
Ranch life -- Wyoming -- History
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, -- 1876-1933
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, -- 1876-1933 -- Correspondence
Women pioneers
Women pioneers -- Wyoming
Women pioneers -- Wyoming -- Correspondence
Wyoming -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life
Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming
History
Pioneers
Pioneers -- Wyoming -- Biography
Pioneers -- Wyoming -- Correspondence
Ranch life
Ranch life -- Wyoming
Ranch life -- Wyoming -- History
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, -- 1876-1933
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, -- 1876-1933 -- Correspondence
Women pioneers
Women pioneers -- Wyoming
Women pioneers -- Wyoming -- Correspondence
Wyoming -- Biography
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ISBN:
9780803251939
9780547525907
9781400128013
9780486140124
9780547525907
9781400128013
9780486140124
Lexile measure:
1070L
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subject_facet | Electronic books, Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming, Pioneers -- Wyoming -- Biography, Pioneers -- Wyoming -- Correspondence, Ranch life -- Wyoming, Ranch life -- Wyoming -- History, Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, -- 1876-1933, Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, -- 1876-1933 -- Correspondence, Women pioneers -- Wyoming, Women pioneers -- Wyoming -- Correspondence, Wyoming -- Biography |
title_display | Letters of a woman homesteader |
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title_short | Letters of a woman homesteader |
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