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Elinore Pruitt Stewart (born Elinore Pruitt; June 3, 1876 – October 8, 1933) was a homesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado.
Nov 22, 1981 · Elinore Randall, later Elinore Stewart, was a widowed laundress who went West from Denver with her 7-year-old daughter, Jerrine, in 1910 to keep house for a rancher, Clyde Stewart, under...
In 1910 Wyoming, Elinor, a widow, and her seven-year old daughter Jerrine travel by train to a remote Montana ranch where Elinor has a job working as a housekeeper for Clyde Stewart, a reserved Scottish rancher.
Orphaned in her teenage years, Elinore Pruitt Stewart was accustomed to independence. She found employment as a housekeeper for Mrs. Juliet Coney in Colorado after leaving a failed marriage in Oklahoma.
Nov 14, 2014 · If the cowboy is king in the literature of Wyoming, then a woman homesteader is queen. In the 1910s and 1920s, one such woman, Elinore Pruitt Stewart, wrote about her homestead experiences in southwestern Wyoming in numerous letters and stories. Two collections of her writings were published as Letters of a Woman Homesteader and ...
Plucky widow Elinore Randall (Conchata Ferrell) and her young daughter, Jerrine (Megan Folson), travel to Montana at the dawn of the 20th century so that Elinore can take a job running the...
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Elinore Pruitt Stewart (born Elinore Pruitt; June 3, 1876 – October 8, 1933) was a homesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado.
