A Homesteader's Portfolio Alice Day Pratt Central Oregon History OSU Molly Gloss

Description: The rare story of a single woman homesteader in the dry-land west. Long introduction by Alice Day Pratt. Not sure if reprinted by Northwest Reprints, or by Oregon State University Press. Few signs of use to pages and cover. OCR scan of the back cover: A Homesteader'sPortfolioAlice Day PrattNorthwest Reprints In November 1911, Alice Day Pratt, aself-described "old maid" nearing forty,filed on 160 acres of land near the tinycommunity of Post in Central Oregon.Perhaps as many as 20 percent of thehomesteaders in the arid west in the firsttwo decades of the twentieth centurywere single women, yet these womenare largely missing from the literature andhistories of the West.The commonly held image of frontierwomen as powerless and dependenthelpmates stems in part from the scarcityof written accounts by homesteadingwomen. Alice Day Pratt's powerfulmemoir presents a rare record of the lifeof a single woman homesteader in thedry-land West-a woman not the victimof circumstances but taking her place asa part of history and a maker of history.Molly Gloss's introduction exploresPratt's life and the historical context ofher eighteen years on the Oregon highdesert. Gloss is the author of The Jump-Off Creek, which received the 1990 H.L.Davis Book Award for Fiction.Cover photograph courtesy of CrookCounty Historical Society ISBN 0-87071-517-8

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