LETTERS
OF A WOMAN
HOMESTEADER

BY

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

1913 AND 1914, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY CO.
1914, BY ELINORE PRUITT STEWART
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published May 1914

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost herhusband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support forherself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to thenearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress.Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as ahousekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who hadtaken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written throughseveral years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her newlife in the new country. They are genuine letters, and are printed aswritten, except for occasional omissions and the alteration of some ofthe names.

4 Park St.

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