{"product_id":"letters-of-a-woman-homesteader-9782382747063","title":"Letters of a Woman Homesteader","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dear Mrs. Coney, -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre you thinking I am lost, like the Babes in the Wood? Well, I am not and I'm sure the robins would have the time of their lives getting leaves to cover me out here. I am 'way up close to the Forest Reserve of Utah, within half a mile of the line, sixty miles from the railroad. I was twenty-four hours on the train and two days on the stage, and oh, those two days  The snow was just beginning to melt and the mud was about the worst I ever heard of.(...)\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Taken from \"Letters of a Woman Homesteader\" written by Elinore Pruitt Stewart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Les Prairies Numeriques\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9782382747063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.30d","brand":"Elinore Pruitt Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40040139980981,"sku":"9782382747063","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_eae1f640-bb8e-48fa-8ce4-29e9246428fa.jpg?v=1621341002","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/letters-of-a-woman-homesteader-9782382747063","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}