The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bloomfield, Susanne George (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803270429 ISBN-13: 9780803270428 Publisher: Bison Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: September 1993 Annotation: Among the most engaging accounts of life in the American West, Elinore Pruitt Stewart related her adventures on an isolated Wyoming homestead with vividness, gusto, and sympathy. Now, we go beyond her published letters to examine the life behind the words. Photographs. Click for more in this series: Women in the West |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 92001206 |
Lexile Measure: 1050(Not Available) |
Series: Women in the West |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.14" W x 9.02" L (0.75 lbs) 227 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - Wyoming - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Features: Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: 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 Old friends and new acquaintances alike will welcome this book combining Stewart's previously unpublished or uncollected letters with Susanne K. George's extensive research.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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