Letters of a Woman Homesteader
β Scribed by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Mariner Books
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 331 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0547525907
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β¦ Synopsis
"Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of"(Christian Science Monitor), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who set out in 1909 to prove that a woman could ranch. Stewart's captivating missives from her homestead in Wyoming bring to full life the beauty, isolation, and joys of working the prairie.
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