Elinore Pruitt Stewart, nee Rupert (1876-1933) was an American nurse and author.
Both parents died when she was young, and she was sent to work for the local railroad.
She married a man much older than her who then died in an accident.
With her young daughter she moved to Denver and trained to become a nurse.
In 1909 she went to work on a homestead in Wyoming, later marrying her former employer.
She regularly wrote letters to a former employer called Mrs.
Coney, who arranged for them to be published in the Atlantic Monthly.
They were later published in two famous books, Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915).
Letters on an elk hunt (Dodo Press), paperback/elinore pruitt stewart
