num_pages: 320
description: "Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of" ( Christian Science Monitor ), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who set out in 1909 to prove that a woman could ranch.A series of letters make for a fascinating narrative and descriptive journal of Mrs. Stewart's life, moving from the city to a Wyoming homestead, marrying and still having the determination to homestead on her own. Stewart's captivating missives bring to full life the beauty, isolation, and joys of working the prairie.
language: English
title: Letters of a Woman Homesteader
titlecomplete: Letters of a Woman Homesteader
genres: Biography, Classics, History, American History, Historical, Womens, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Westerns, Memoir
ratings_count: 7841
places: Wyoming
publisher: Mariner Books