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Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart

by Susanne K George

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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Old friends and new acquaintances alike will welcome this book combining Stewart's previously unpublished or uncollected letters with Susanne K. George's extensive research.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.

About the Author

Susanne K. George is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Kearney who specializes in western and women's literature.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780803270428
Subtitle:
The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Author:
George, Susanne K.
Author:
George, Susanne K.
Author:
Bloomfield, Susanne George
Publisher:
Bison Books
Location:
Lincoln, Neb.
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Sociology, anthropology and archaeology
Subject:
Sociology, rural
Subject:
Wyoming
Subject:
Women pioneers
Subject:
United States - 19th Century
Subject:
General History
Subject:
Biography-Women
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Women in the West
Series Volume:
103-144
Publication Date:
19930901
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Illus.
Pages:
227
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 0.75 lb

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