ELINORE PRUITT STEWART (1876-1933) caused a literary sensation in 1914
when her Letters of a Woman Homesteader was published. A self-educated
pioneer in southwest Wyoming, she wrote letters to keep her mind busy
amidst the hard physical labor of carving a home out of wilderness, and
to keep her friendships fresh in that remote place In this followup of
the next year, Stewart's missives are short stories in themselves,
letters written about events in the summer and fall of 1914 and intended
for later publication, as those of her first collection were not. The
joy of Stewart's writing is in the perceptive eye she turns on her
neighbors and their fortunes and misfortunes: scraping up money to buy a
coffin and tombstone for a beloved mother, digging wells for thirsty
horses, making bonnets and kitchen curtainHIS036041s to beautify a harsh
environment, rekindling a romance between a couple long estranged, and
more. A classic of pioneer life, this delightful book continues to
enthrall readers today, nearly a century as it was written.