Letters of a Woman Homesteader

"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. Stewart's captivating missives from her homestead in Wyoming bring to full life the beauty, isolation, and joys of working the prairie.

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The Homestead Acts were designed to open the West to farming settlement by offering a section of land to those who would farm it with certain restrictions.

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