| Letters of a Woman Homesteader Contributor(s): Stewart, Elinore Pruitt (Author), Wyeth, N. C. (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0486451429 ISBN-13: 9780486451428 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: "Warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative." -- "The Wall Street Journal." Told with vivid gusto by a young, fiercely determined widow, this towering classic of American frontier life paints a candid portrait of her work, travels, neighbors, and harsh existence on a Wyoming ranch in the early 1900s. Includes 6 original illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006042551 |
| Lexile Measure: 1070 |
| Series: Dover Books on Americana |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.48" W x 8.52" (0.38 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |