Wyoming outdoorsman Wilf Kasmire decides to try his hand at guiding elk hunters as a way to earn a living. He is uneasy about one hunting party, and his attempts to figure out the truth leads him into a mystery and a murder.

A continuation of Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Letters on an Elk Hunt is set in the same corner of southwestern Wyoming, the time is the fall of 1914, and (despite the title) Mrs. Stewart is far less concerned with elk hunting than with people?old friends and new acquaintances?and with the land in which she found so much beauty. Her letters, as Jessamyn West said of the earlier volume, "are, in fact (though not that alone), a collection of short...