Introduction

BY A

WOMAN HOMESTEADER

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Lincoln and London

Copyright, 1915, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

All rights reserved

Copyright (C) renewed 1943 by H C Stewart

First Bison Book Printing 1979

Most recent printing indicated by first digit below 7 8 9 10

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1878-- Letters on an elk hunt

1 Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1878-- 2 Frontier and pioneer life--Wyoming 3 Elk hunting--Wyoming 4 Pioneers--Wyoming--Biography 5 Wyoming--Biography I Title

F761 S82 1979 978 7'03'0924 79-13840

ISBN 0-8032-4112-7

ISBN 0-8032-9112-4 pbk

Published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company

Manufactured in the United States of America

[Illustration: Photograph courtesy of Clyde Stewart]

CONTENTS

I. CONNIE WILLIS 1

II. THE START 13

III. EDEN VALLEY 24

IV. CRAZY OLAF AND OTHERS 34

V. DANYUL AND HIS MOTHER 57

VI. ELIZABETH'S ROMANCE 81

VII. THE HUNT 95

VIII. THE SEVENTH MAN 109

IX. AN INDIAN CAMP 118

X. THE TOOTH-HUNTERS 124

XI. BUDDY AND BABY GIRL 130

XII. A STAMPEDE 143

XIII. NEARING HOME 156

XIV. THE MEMORY-BED 160