Recollections of Past Days : The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer / / edited by Sandra Ailey Petree.
Patience Loader has become an icon for the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies, who traveled the Mormon Trail in the 1850s. Her autobiography offers an important record of those events, but also of much more. Wife of a Civil War soldier, Patience served as an arm...
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| Superior document: | Life writings of frontier women ; v. 8 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2006. ©2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Life writings of frontier women ;
v. 8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages) :; illustrations |
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| Summary: | Patience Loader has become an icon for the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies, who traveled the Mormon Trail in the 1850s. Her autobiography offers an important record of those events, but also of much more. Wife of a Civil War soldier, Patience served as an army laundress in Washington DC and ran a boarding house as well. After the war, her husband died of consumption, and Patience returned to Utah alone, where she became a cook in a mining camp. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 128328345X 9786613283450 0874215315 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Sandra Ailey Petree. |