Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

By Elinore Pruitt Stewart

  • Release Date: 1878-01-01
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 289 Ratings

Description

Their answer was to drive up faster and stir up a powerful lot of dust. They kept pretty well ahead after that, but at sundown we came up with them at the well where we were to camp. This well had been sunk by the county for the convenience of travelers, and we were mighty thankful to find it. It came out that our young couple were bride and groom. They had never seen each other until the night before, having met through a matrimonial paper. They had met in Green River and were married that morning, and the young husband was taking her away up to Pinedale to his ranch.

Reviews

  • 5 stars, wonderful diary- BUT gratuitous racism

    5
    By NS Sanes
    The glimpse into American Pioneer life is remarkable. This is a brilliant woman with real talent for writing, the inadverdent window on Mornon life in the Utah territory is real history, though anecdotal. The author grew up in a slave state just after the legal end of slavery. There are comments about black people, confined to chocolate cookies, that turn the stomach of the modern reader. The writer is ikely remarkably tolerant for her time - but the time is the first decade of the 20th century.

  • Stretching

    5
    By reflective conveyor
    Great way to reflect on our current blessings and those who worked so hard before us.

  • Interesting

    4
    By Brendagaye
    An interesting look at life a long time ago.

  • Wonderful story

    5
    By Debbylouwho
    Loved the book. My grandparents were homesteaders so I found it very honest and descriptive of their struggles and determination to conquer the frontier.

  • Delightful letters from a frontier homesteader

    5
    By Rotiketi
    As someone who lives on the Rocky Mountain Front, I really enjoyed the author's stories of life in the West when people still had to "prove up" their homesteading claims. As a single woman with a young child, the author had to work hard for her living but still enjoyed the beauty of the wide open West.

  • Letters of a woman Homesteader

    5
    By Prunella 5
    A mixture of old fashioned woman and woman libber. This woman knows who she is and her capabilities. A delightful book for all ages.

  • Well-written and engaging

    5
    By Rccccccc1845
    Highly readable. An intimate, first-hand account of frontier life from joy and hilarity to sorrows.

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