Letters of a woman homesteader / Elinore Pruitt Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Wyoming.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933--Correspondence.

Stewart, Elinore Pruitt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2020.

Summary:

This "warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative" memoir of a woman homesteader in early twentieth-century Wyoming inspired the acclaimed film Heartland ( The Wall Street Journal ). In 1909, Elinore Pruitt answered an ad in the Denver Post to become Henry Clyde Stewart's housekeeper on his homestead outside Burntfork, Wyoming. Elinore soon fell in love with the land's vast, untamed beauty, and filed a claim for her own adjoining property under the Homestead Act. Over the next five years, she not only made a home for herself, but traveled extensively across the state, befriending every neighbor within a hundred miles. Through it all-weddings and births, illnesses and snowstorms, changing seasons and changing times-Elinore maintained correspondence with her former employer Juliet Coney in Denver, Colorado. In vivid detail and with lively prose, Elinore told Juliet of life as a woman in the American West. First published in the Atlantic Monthly, these letters made their author an American icon of her time. "Full of the tang of the prairies and of a delightful personality." - The New York Times

Contents:

Cover

Title

Contents

I. The Arrrival at Burnt Fork

II. Filing a Claim

III. A Busy, Happy Summer

IV. A Charming Adventure and Zebulon Pike

V. Sedalia and Regalia

VI. A Thanksgiving-Day Wedding

VII. Zebulon Pike Visits His Old Home

VIII. A Happy Christmas

IX. A Confession

X. The Story of Cora Belle

XI. Zebbie's Story

XII. A Contented Couple

XIII. Proving Up

XIV. The New House

XV. The "Stocking-Leg" Dinner

XVI. The Horse-Thieves

XVII. At Gavotte's Camp

XVIII. The Homesteader's Marriage and a Little Funeral

XIX. The Adventure of the Christmas Tree

XX. The Joys of Homesteading

XXI. A Letter of Jerrine's

XXII. The Efficient Mrs. O'Shaughnessy

XXIII. How It Happened

XXIV. A Little Romance

XXV. Among the Mormons

XXVI. Success

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 27, 2020).

ISBN:

9781504061162

1504061160