Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Author: Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Edition: Trade Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0803251939

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Women of the West)

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 toAknow about homesteading a place for herself. Get Letters of a Woman Homesteader literature books for free.
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 "pro Check Letters of a Woman Homesteader our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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