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LETTERS OF A WOMAN HOMESTEADER.....
The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country. They are genuine letters, and are printed as written, except for occasional omissions and the alteration of some of the names.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY.....
Elinore Pruitt was born at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1876. She spent most of her childhood in Oklahoma (Indian Territory). Her schooling came to an end when her teacher was lynched by a group of local men. At the age of fourteen both her parents died. She now had the task of raising her eight younger brothers and sisters. The three youngest were taken to live with their grandmother whereas Elinore and the five older children went to work for the local railroad company. Elinore eventually married a man much older than her. He was killed in an accident and despite having a young child, she trained to become a nurse. Elinore worked at a hospital in Burnfork but in her spare time wrote articles for the Kansas City Star. Later she moved with her daughter, Jerrine, to Denver, where she found work as a cook.

In 1909 Elinore went to work for Clyde Stewart, at his isolated ranch in Wyoming. Six weeks later she married the forty one year old widower. Over the next few years the couple had four children. The first one died but the three boys survived childhood. Elinore wrote regular letters to Mrs Coney, a former employer. Coney was impressed with the standard of Elinore's writing and arranged for them to be published in Atlantic Monthly. They also appeared in two books, Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915). In 1926 Elinore Pruitt Stewart was badly injured when mowing hay. The horse bolted and she was run over by the mower. She never completely recovered from her injuries and died in 1933.

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