Alice Day Pratt

Alice Day Pratt (1872-1963) was a teacher and author who at age forty joined the last wave of government-sponsored homesteading, establishing a dryland farm in Oregon’s high desert country.

Books by this Author

A Homesteader's Portfolio

“So much is so skillfully crammed into this little book that the reader comes to admire Pratt’s zest while wondering how she could possibly have...

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A Homesteader's Portfolio

The passing of the Enlarged Homestead Act in 1909 brought tens of thousands of Americans to the arid West. Attracted by the promise of free...

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