Letters On An Elk Hunt. By A Woman Homesteader

ELINORE PRUITT STEWART

Publication: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, Boston and New York

First edition. 12mo. Brown cloth, titles and decoration in dark brown on the front cover and spine, [10], 161 [1] pp., frontispiece. The author lived in southwestern Wyoming. The letters from Wyoming are dated July 8 - October 25, 1914. She describes an account of a trip during which she travelled behind a group of two thousand steers that were being driven to the railroad depot for shipment. She describes a terrifying stampede in vivid detail.

This is the author's second book. In 1914 her first book "Letters Of A Woman Homesteader" with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, is descriptive of ranch life in southwestern Wyoming. The letters are dated from April, 1909, to November, 1913, and were printed originally in the Atlantic Monthly magazine.

Near fine bright copy in the elusive dust jacket that is lightly sunned on the spine, light wear to the spine ends and corners, and with a tiny nick and small chip to the top of the rear panel. An attractive copy.