Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Stewart's letters written from 1909 to 1913 were the basis of the acclaimed 1980 film Heartland. Mrs. Stewart was a woman whose nineteenth-century pioneer spirit seems to have been laced with a strong dose of twentieth-century liberation. Equally impressive is her ability to characterize the people around her.-Western American Literature.Elinore Pruitt Stewart (born Elinore Pruitt June 3 1876 - October 8 1933) was a homesteader in Wyoming and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver Colorado. Those letters which reveal an adventurous capable and resourceful woman of lively intelligence were published in two collections in 1914 and 1915. The first of those collections Letters of a Woman Homesteader was the basis of the 1979 movie Heartland.