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Rating(4.1 / 5.0, 46 votes)
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46 reviews
April 17,2025
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Intrinsically thoses letters are not bad, they are not just as charming as Letters From a Woman Homesteader was.
It might be that we meet so many people and we spend just a few pages with them, that we don't have time to care for them.
April 17,2025
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I think I enjoyed this even more than Letters of a Woman Homesteader but why bother writing your own review when the author provides one herself?

“I have experienced about all the human emotions. I had not expected to encounter so many people or to get the little inside glimpses that I've had, but wherever there are human beings there are the little histories. I have come home realizing anew how happy I am, how much I have been spared, and how many of life's blessings are mine.”
April 17,2025
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A nice sequel to Letters from a Woman Homesteader, covering a journey along western Wyoming in 1914. Her good friend, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy sounds like a riot and a good soul.
April 17,2025
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I love these books. The letters are so descriptive, I feel as though I were there with her. Mrs. Stewart works so hard and does it so cheerfully, I feel guilty whining about my daily chores. Quite an inspiration for our times!
April 17,2025
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Excellent 2nd book to the Letters of a Woman Homesteader. These are the real letters from a real woman and I found them to be amazing. It is a very quick read.
April 17,2025
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Fabulous book - and a free Kindle download. What is most striking, if you believe this to be fact, is the extraordinary bravery and adventurousness of the protagonist.
April 17,2025
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I loved Letters from a Woman Homesteader, and this book, though quite a bit shorter, makes a great sequel. The author's gift of writing and the picture she paints of life in the Wyoming wilderness refresh me and remind me to open my eyes to see the beauty around me.
April 17,2025
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I’m so happy I found this book - what an artifact! The experiences of the people and the determination and suffering that pioneers faced is incredible to me (especially in this life of convenience we now have).
April 17,2025
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This is a hard time of year for me. The anniversary of my husband's death approaches, and I get sad and wistful. This was the perfect book. It got me up and about, scrubbing the house and feeling better about things. I hated the hunting scenes, but not too many homesteaders went in for the vegetarian thing.
April 17,2025
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5 glowing stars! This book is as good as the first one albeit shorter in page numbers. I wish the late Mrs Stewart had published more books because I really enjoyed her writing.
April 17,2025
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Since I enjoyed the first book, "Letters of a Woman Homesteader", and I had this book on my shelves... time to read it! Taken together, the books give a wonderful portrait of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, her neighbors, her landscape (SW Wyoming), and her "good mon" Mr. Stewart.

Lots of hard work establishing a homestead in the early 1900's in a harsh environment, but she also took the time to notice, and write about, the beauty surrounding her.

I'm happy to be living in my time and place but can admire the pluck, an old-fashioned word, of Ms. Stewart. Lovely, and strong, woman.
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