Cover2Cover Book Club: "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

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.

You can borrow Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart from the Mannington Public Library or access it digitally via Libby or Hoopla. Please join us to discuss the book. Participants must register to attend.

Date:

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Time:

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Time Zone:

Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)

Location:

Mannington Meeting Room

Campus:

Mannington Public Library

Audience:

Adult

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