death_place death_date birth_place relatives parents birth_date known_for residence article_title education name occupation
new york city 11 january 1963 near mankato , minnesota julius -rrb- -lrb- brother -rrb- , marjorie -lrb- younger sister william and sophie pratt 16 june 1872 homesteading alone in the high desert broadview 1912 & ndash ; 30 , a ranch near post , oregon , alice day pratt
 home schooling alice day pratt homesteader , writer , teacher
alice day pratt

alice day pratt was a teacher and author who at age 40 joined the last wave of government-sponsored homesteading in the u.s. state of oregon .
pratt , who was single , established a dryland farm and ranch near post , about east of bend .
the parcel of land became hers through provisions of the enlarged homestead act of 1909 .
living on her ranch , broadview , from 1912 through 1930 , she kept dogs , cats , horses , chickens , and cows and sometimes produced enough surplus to sell alfalfa , hay , grain , milk , eggs , and vegetables .
to supplement her income , she taught school in post , prineville , and conant basin .
born in minnesota in 1872 , pratt grew up there and in south dakota , later teaching in the south before moving to oregon to start a new life .
living at first in a tent , pratt worked broadview primarily by herself with occasional help from neighbors and other homesteaders .
they eventually helped her build a barn and a wooden house consisting of a single room measuring .
she wrote about her initial broadview experience in `` a homesteader 's portfolio '' , first published in 1922 .
cold , wind , snow , and drought eventually forced her to sell her dairy herd to repay a loan , and in 1930 she gave up dryland farming and moved east to niagara falls , to live with her mother and sister .
later relocating to new york city , she retained possession of broadview until 1950 .
first published by the macmillan company , `` a homesteader 's portfolio '' was reprinted by the oregon state university press in 1993 .
pratt 's other work includes `` animal babies '' and `` animals of a sagebrush ranch '' , both for juvenile readers , as well as `` three frontiers '' , and the `` alice day pratt papers , 1960 '' .
unpublished work includes a novel called `` sagebrush fires '' , several short stories , and `` teacher 's trek '' , a memoir about her teaching experiences .
