![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Publishers’ Note, May 1914)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit . Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart is a charming set of letters which offer a unique, distinctly female perspective on the American. They are genuine letters, and are printed as written, except for occasional omissions and the alteration of some of the names. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country. From there, in 1909, took up homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming to prove that a woman could ranch, which she did admirably. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. Author Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876 - 1933) lost her husband in a railroad accident and moved to Denver to work to support herself & a two-year-old daughter. Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. ![]() LibriVox recording of Letters of a Woman Homesteader, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |