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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title -- Contents -- I. The Arrrival at Burnt Fork -- II. Filing a Claim -- III. A Busy, Happy Summer -- IV. A Charming Adventure and Zebulon Pike -- V. Sedalia and Regalia -- VI. A Thanksgiving-Day Wedding -- VII. Zebulon Pike Visits His Old Home -- VIII. A Happy Christmas -- IX. A Confession -- X. The Story of Cora Belle -- XI. Zebbie's Story -- XII. A Contented Couple -- XIII. Proving Up -- XIV. The New House -- XV. The "Stocking-Leg" Dinner -- XVI. The Horse-Thieves -- XVII. At Gavotte's Camp -- XVIII. The Homesteader's Marriage and a Little Funeral |
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XIX. The Adventure of the Christmas Tree -- XX. The Joys of Homesteading -- XXI. A Letter of Jerrine's -- XXII. The Efficient Mrs. O'Shaughnessy -- XXIII. How It Happened -- XXIV. A Little Romance -- XXV. Among the Mormons -- XXVI. Success -- Copyright |
| Summary |
This "warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative" memoir of a woman homesteader in early twentieth-century Wyoming inspired the acclaimed film Heartland (The Wall Street Journal). In 1909, Elinore Pruitt answered an ad in the Denver Post to become Henry Clyde Stewart's housekeeper on his homestead outside Burntfork, Wyoming. Elinore soon fell in love with the land's vast, untamed beauty, and filed a claim for her own adjoining property under the Homestead Act. Over the next five years, she not only made a home for herself, but traveled extensively across the state, befriending every neighbor within a hundred miles. Through it all'weddings and births, illnesses and snowstorms, changing seasons and changing times'Elinore maintained correspondence with her former employer Juliet Coney in Denver, Colorado. In vivid detail and with lively prose, Elinore told Juliet of life as a woman in the American West. First published in the Atlantic Monthly, these letters made their author an American icon of her time. "Full of the tang of the prairies and of a delightful personality." 'The New York Times |
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Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed March 23, 2020) |
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Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933 -- Correspondence
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| SUBJECT |
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933 fast |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Wyoming
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Personal correspondence
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781504061162 |
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1504061160 |
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