Elinore PruittStewart (born Elinore Pruitt; June 3, 1876 – October 8, 1933) was ahomesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wroteletters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado.Those letters, which reveal an adventurous, capable, and resourceful woman oflively intelligence, were published in two collections in 1914 and 1915. Thefirst of those collections, Letters of a Woman Homesteader, was the basis ofthe 1979 movie Heartland.
