![]() ![]() ![]() Her father was killed in the late 1870s while serving in the military on the Mexican border. This desire was strong in Elinore as well.Įlinore was born June 3, 1876, in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, in present-day south central Oklahoma. Though their personal reasons for homesteading varied widely, the desire for independence often dominated the letters, diaries and memoirs they wrote. Single women claimed roughly 12 percent of all homesteads in the western states. Īs a single woman homesteader, Elinore was not unique. Two collections of her writings were published as Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Letters on an Elk Hunt, securing her position as a significant figure both in Wyoming history and in its literature.Įlinore Stewart in her garden at the Burntfork homestead. In the 1910s and 1920s, one such woman, Elinore Pruitt Stewart, wrote about her homestead experiences in southwestern Wyoming in numerous letters and stories. If the cowboy is king in the literature of Wyoming, then a woman homesteader is queen. ![]()
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