Recollections of Past Days The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University, University Libraries
2006
2006. |
| Series: | Life writings of frontier women ;
v. 8. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432621306719 |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations Also available in print form |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781283283458 9786613283450 9780874215311 |
