Letters of a Woman Homesteader

In 1909, with her young daughter in tow, Elinore Pruitt Stewart set out for Burnt Fork, Wyoming, to prove that a woman could ranch. Letters of a Woman Homesteader gathers together her colorful accounts of life on the prairie, where an acre could be had with only a dollar and twenty-five cents and a bit of determination. Complete with the original N.C. Wyeth illustrations, this charming chronicle, spanning four years, fully captures the beauty and joys of working the land, the eccentric characters who inhabit it, and the beguiling possibility that, even within the confines of a turn-of-the-century ranch, a woman could live expansively.