Adventure-filled correspondence

In July 1845, John O’Sullivan Posted in Democracy Review The article “Annexation”, which stated: “The fulfillment of our manifest destiny is to expand ourselves throughout the continent that Providence has set for us.” Populating the vast plains of the Wild West, and displacing the native tribes that inhabited them, became a divine obligation, as John Just expressed in his iconic painting progress. The film industry has turned this colonial epic into an essential reference historically, artistically and commercially.

in the literary field, James F Cooper That was progress. Writers such as Bret HartAnd Hamlin GarlandWalt Whitman, Mark Twain, … and a woman, Willa Catherauthor Pioneers (1913). However, the list of authors goes much further, with names such as Isabella Lucy BirdAnd A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1873), Sarah Raymond HerndonAnd Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains 1865 (1902), Elinor Pruitt Stewart, her family letters (1914) … which has just been translated into Spanish in a volume that also includes his book Letters from elk hunting (1915) entitled Elinor Letters Submitted by Manuel Hidalgo.

The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed women over the age of 21—provided they were single, widowed, or divorced—to acquire land west of the Mississippi in their own name. Elinor, a widow with a young daughter, jumped at the opportunity and bought a plot of land next to Mr. Stewart’s house, at that time her employer and later her husband.

[La gran aventura de Elinore]

In the aforementioned preface we read that the author “limited herself to recounting her adventures and misadventures with a letter to Mrs. Connie as a way of continuing to trust their cordial relationship, in the same way that she limited herself to living in the mountains and dealing with household chores.” future and stay. (p. 16) It was Mrs. Connie who sent her the letters addressed to the eminent Atlantic Monthly.

As might be expected, Elinor Stewart became a very popular person, and the publications brought her enough profit to furnish the land she had acquired. the forty letters Giving a detailed tour of their fears and delusions when faced with the challenge of moving their property forward, “This summer has been the busiest and happiest I can remember” (p. 35), he wrote after months of “recording a plot and Now I am a wealthy landlord(p. 30).

Elinor Stewart’s method of writing is similar to oral narration, with her letters telling stories in the style of morals

His way of writing resembles an oral narrative, with his letters telling stories in the fashionista’s purest fashion. More like a literary figure than a real one, we observe his personal development as he reaches his goals. We find ourselves in front of a woman who is independent and assertive A new vision of lifeoblivious to the victim who was not considered and could not be allowed.

It’s a striking development, for example, in the tone of the cards. At first, he does not hesitate to apologize for the length and content, with phrases such as “I stop bothering you”, “sincere apologies for that awful letter your ex-laundry is giving you”; However, the phrases “dear friend” or “your happy friend” are repeated in the latter, even acknowledging: “Now I feel at ease Clean and respectfulI am sitting here in my room, while I am writing to you.” (pg. 307)