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Letters of a Woman Homesteader Trade paperback - 1961

by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (Stated 1st Bison Book Printing/8th Printing, October 1961). Trade paperback, 282 pages. Clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. Covers/edges show general shelf/age wear; spine is not creased. ABOUT THE BOOK: 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.
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  • Title Letters of a Woman Homesteader
  • Author Elinore Pruitt Stewart
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition 1st Bison Book Printing, 8th Printing
  • Condition Used - Good+
  • Pages 282
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NB
  • Date 1961
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 03282403CT1

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