Stewart, Elinore Pruitt

1876-1933

Burntfork, Wyoming

http://faculty.unk.edu/b/bloomfields/stewart/stewart.html

Sweetwater County

Biographical and Professional Information

Author of Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915), Elinore Pruitt Stewart is America's most famous woman homesteader. Born in Indian Territory, she journeyed to Burntfork, Wyoming, where she married her employer,Clyde Stewart. She filed on her own land that same year and recorded in letters her life on the family's small ranch.

Genres

Autobiography or Biography

Nonfiction

Wyoming Subjects

Titles

• Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914). Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin.

• Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915). Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin.

• Adventures of The Woman Homesteader (1992). Ed. Susanne K. George (Bloomfield). Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN: 0-8032-7042-9.

Contact:

Susanne George Bloomfield

bloomfields@unk.edu