This lady continues to amaze me. Anyone who liked Letters of a Woman Homesteader needs to read this, too.

The 'kiddies' were on this trip, but she didn't say much about them in these letters.

I don't think I'd have enjoyed this trip -- too long (about two months!), too cold, and too much 'roughing it.' I don't know how they managed food for the group ... maybe they lived on a diet of meat???

I was happy to find another book by Mrs. Stewart, although I had some trepidation about the subject in the title. And while they do eventually get to hunt and it is described in matter-of-fact detail, it's not what was most memorable to me.

What I liked best (told through a series of letters from Mrs. Stewart to her friend back east) was seeing the relationships sustained between the homesteaders. As they traveled to and from the hunt, the hunting party depended upon the kindness of strangers -- and always found it. What a charming way of life. And yet, still very rough. I cannot imagine camping with small children in the snow!

All in all, it's a very nice "slice of life" book.

The sequel to Letters from a Woman Homesteader. After Elinore's former boss nicely got her letters published to some acclaim, Elinore wrote up a new batch more intended for publication. This is a great follow-up. I couldn't quite believe how many things could happen in one trip. But it seemed like loads of fun.

Another great read by Elinore Pruitt Stewart! This one deals with characters she meets on an elk hunt in 1914. Compared to Letters of. . . This book is more about the harshness and beauty of pioneer life told through personal histories -some very sad and moving parts. Beautiful book - another favorite.

La primera parte, las Cartas de una cazadora propiamente dichas me gustaron tanto como las Cartas de una pionera. Me resultaron igual de frescas y deliciosas de leer. Los textos de Otras mujeres de la frontera que aporta la editorial para completar un volumen de tamaño medio, me gustaron unos más que otros, aunque todos me resultaron curiosos de leer. Me gustó especialmente Una matiné wagneriana de Willa Cather, Mary Hunter Austin, sobre todo con Lactantes del cielo y Helen Hunt Jackson con los textos de Un siglo de deshonra.

Another collection of letters written by Elinore Pruitt Stewart to her friend and former employer Mrs. Coney, this book was originally published in 1915.

According to the foreword, the original book had most likely not been written for publication, they were truly just letters written to keep in touch with and entertain her friend. Mrs. Coney sent them off to the Atlantic Monthly and they were published, and EPS used the proceeds to buy seed and horses for her ranch. The foreword goes on to say that the letters in this book were written with publication in mind, and after reading that I was curious if there would be a change in the 'feel' of this book compared to the first one.

The topic of this book is an elk hunt the author participated in with her husband and other people in the area. They were dated from July 8, 1914 to October 25, 1914. That might seem like a long time for an elk hunt but remember that even in those not all that far ago years this area of Wyoming was quite remote. At more than one phase of the journey to the hunting fields there were no tracks for the horse drawn wagons to follow, and the author's core party also spent time here and there with the people they met along the way, not to mention that one time when they took the wrong path and found themselves lost for a bit. Luckily, a rancher told them that the road they were on was actually a better route to where they wanted to go, so it all worked out in the long run.

What was most moving here were the stories of the other homesteaders in this area. Our author brought them all to life and moved me to tears more than once. So whether she was trying harder to create something for publication or still merely intending to take her friend along on the journey into the high mountains, she shared moments with all readers that we would never get to experience without her stories.

En esta ocasion Elinore escribe a su querida señora Coney y le explica que se va de viaje, una escapada que las hará disfrutar a ambas.
Viajaran de Wyoming al desierto y a los bosques. Pruitt nos trasladará a esos paisajes, conoceremos a gente maravillosa, indios escapados de su reserva, abuelitas sanadoras y a maleantes cazadores de dientes.

Las cartas de otras mujeres es una antología de relatos de escritoras que vivieron en el oeste norteamericano. Algunas con nombres tan conocidos como Calamity Jane.
Esta antología no me ha gustado.
No lo he disfrutado porque son relatos sueltos, sin cronología . Un puñado de cartas simplemente.

Creo que Elinore es una de mia autoras favoritas, su sencillez, su bondad ... Me habría encantado conocerla.

No le pongo cinco estrellas porque las cartas de otras mujeres .. no me ha gustado. Si no sería un libro de 10 ¡¡

Almost as good as Letters of a woman Homesteader.

This is an epistolary story of a months-long elk hunt of about a hundred years ago. A good story, but tragic behind the author's determination to find goodness and beauty in a very hard life.

I downloaded the full story and reformatted it as I read in a document.

Awesome book!