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Overview"As a young widow with a small child, Elinore Pruitt left Denver in 1909 and set out for Wyoming, where she hoped to buy a ranch. Determined to prove that a lone woman could survive the hardships of homesteading, she initially worked as a housekeeper and hired hand for a neighbor - a kind but taciturn Scottish bachelor whom she eventually married.Spring and summers were hard, she concedes, and were taken up with branding, farming, doctoring cattle, and other chores. But with the arrival of fall, Pruitt found time to take her young daughter on camping trips and serve her neighbors as midwife, doctor, teacher, Santa Claus, and friend. She provides a candid portrait of these and other experiences in twenty-six letters written to a friend back in Denver.Described by the Wall Street Journal as """"warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative,"""" this unsurpassed classic of American frontier life - enhanced with original illustrations by N. C. Wyeth - will charm today's audience as much as it fascinated readers when it was first published in 1914." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elinore Pruitt Stewart , J Hector St John CrevecoeurPublisher: Dover Publications Inc. Imprint: Dover Publications Inc. Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.161kg ISBN: 9780486451428ISBN 10: 0486451429 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 25 August 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsWarmly delightful, vigorously affirmative. Warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative.--The Wall Street Journal Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |