Book Recommendation Requests > Mari Carmen’s Request
Mari Carmen
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I recently read "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, and I want to read books like that one, not necessarily about pioneers, but about true lives and with letters.
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Homestead: Modern Pioneers Pursuing the Edge of Possibility
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Perhaps this one. It has more like a modern setting, but it is a biography nontheless
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The Trees
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Not quite what you are looking for but definitely fulfills the spirit of your request. Richter read 1500 journals of pioneers in 1800 to the Ohio Territories. That is where his unique pioneer vocabulary comes from. A families pioneer experience where the canopy of trees was so thick the sun rarely came through. Very unusual 160 page book followed by The Fields, another 160 page book. Ended with a 300 page The Town. He won a Pulitzer for the effort.
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