As a young widow with a small child; Elinore Pruitt left Denver in 1909 and set out for Wyoming; where she hoped to buy a ranch. Determined to prove that a lone woman could survive the hardships of homesteading; she initially worked as a housekeeper and hired hand for a neighbor — a kind but taciturn Scottish bachelor whom she eventually married.Spring and summers were hard; she concedes; and were taken up with branding; farming; doctoring cattle; and other chores. But with the arrival of fall; Pruitt found time to take her young daughter on camping trips and serve her neighbors as midwife; doctor; teacher; Santa Claus; and friend. She provides a candid portrait of these and other experiences in twenty-six letters written to a friend back in Denver.Described by the Wall Street Journal as "warmly delightful; vigorously affirmative;" this unsurpassed classic of American frontier life — enhanced with original illustrations by N. C. Wyeth — will charm today's audience as much as it fascinated readers when it was first published in 1914.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. this is an important book to understanding the influence of Christianity on IslamBy John M. BeasleyVery few books in English discuss the influence of Christianity on the formation of Islam. But; Islam formed within a Christian world. It was also formed on the edges of the Christian world where the Christian heretics were exiled who would not profess the Nicene Creed were exiled into the desert. Tor Andrae wrote a number of books on the influence of Christianity on Islam; but most of them have not been translated into English. Most are in German or Swedish.3 of 10 people found the following review helpful. fundamental nonografÃaBy Jose Silva AnguitaDentro de la literatura existente respecto de Mahoma; la monografÃa de Tor Andrae es fundamental; pues es; junto con la de Dermenghem; particularmente interesante para estudiar la religiosidad inherente a la evocación del Profeta por los musulmanes. Un libro que permite el acercamiento del lector a la vida y obra del profeta del islamismo.8 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Let's not get bewitched by our language.By Grand Sen~orThis book is a typical Orientalist account of the Life the Messenger and the Revealed Message of the God. Orientalists still cannot comprehend that without the previously revealed Messages of the God we wouldn't understand the Quran at all. As long as they cannot see the Quran in the context of other revealed strciptures and base their accounts on the assumption that the Quran is composed by Muhammed (pinching ideas from Christians and Jews jumbling them with some of his own as the time goes by according to the needs of his society and his sexual desires); I don't think they can understand the importance of this message. therefore their efforts amounts to naught and waste of time.After this prelude I am not going to criticize every single paragraph of Tor Andrae but I will criticize his account of the concept "will" in the Quran; because;L.Wittgenstein said: "If you understand the workings of will in alanguage; then you understand the language."Tor quotes three verses from the Quran where the word "will" is used and on one of them he replaces this word with "pleased" to prepare it for his coming criticism; here it is:"Had we pleased; we had certainly given to every soul his guidance." (32;13)However the true wording of the sentence is:"Had we willed; we had certainly given to every soul his guidance."Then Tor jumps from this to a capricious God reflected on the character of Muhammed;-)Also with his quotation "...No soul shall believe but by the permission of Allah..." he confuses the will of Allah to work out a contradiction with his predestination concept. If some issue is left to permission then how can one reduce it to predestination?Before attempting to look for contradictions in the revealed words of the God one should have good grip of those concepts how they are employed in the Quran - namely concept `will" and "permission".Those words are employed within hundreds of verses in the Quran to give us a solid understanding of their use.Tor wrote this book in late 1920s; today we know more philosophy not to confuse concepts like "will"; "permission" and "pleased" so that we don't get bewitched by our language not to be able to distinguish the revealed words of the God from the words of human-beings and Satan. If we are incapable to make this distinction then we have a serious problem with our language.
