ABSTRACT
"When I read of the hard times among the Denver poor," Elinore Pruitt Stewart wrote in 1913, "I feel like urging them every one to get out and file on land." This washerwomanturned-Wyoming-homesteader was especially enthusiastic about women homesteading. "It really requires less strength and labor to raise plenty to satisfy a large family," she claimed, "than it does to go out to wash, with the added satisfaction of knowing that their job will not be lost to them if they care to keep it," 1
