Generations of readers have delighted in Elinore Pruitt Stewart's
"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" (1914) and "Letters on an Elk
Hunt" (1915), among the most engaging accounts of life in the
American West. Stewart related her adventures on an isolated
Wyoming homestead with such vividness, gusto, and sympathy that she
has become the woman homesteader. Until now, however, little has
been known about her except what she chose to reveal in her
published letters.
Old friends and new acquaintances alike will welcome this book
combining Stewart's previously unpublished or uncollected letters
with Susanne K. George's extensive research. Here is as full and
candid a portrait as wella re ever likely to have of The Woman
Homesteader: the illness, disappointments, and grinding hard work
that lay behind her genial public persona; the family, neighbors,
and correspondents who peopled her letter-stories and shared her
life.
George has discovered in Elinore Pruitt Stewart a story fully as
rewarding as any told by the Woman Homesteader herself. In an
afterword George considers Stewart's use of fictional devices and
her growth as a writer as well as her place in American
letters.
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