A review by readerpants
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

4.0

After reading Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West and seriously wishing there had been more primary source materials (big flaw in that book), guess what should be donated to our library's ten cent book sale but this marvelous wry, funny collection of letters! I just wish there had been more. It's episodic -- lots of holes in the overall story because there just aren't that many letters -- but pretty much delightful and completely fascinating.

Caveat: includes some short examples of casual 1909 racism... sigh. Elinore, if only you'd known better! Taking away a star for it, though.