Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Letters
af a Woman
Homesteader

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
By Elinore Pruitt Stewart

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. Turning her hand to the
nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself,
she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had
taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in
Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country. They are genuine letters, and are printed as
written, except for occasional omissions and the alteration of some of the names. (Publishers’ Note, May
1914)

Read by Lynne Carroll. Total running time: 05:19:40

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart

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