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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Patience Loader Archer
• Assisted by: Sandra Ailey Petree (Editor)
• Publisher: Utah St Univ Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2006
• EAN: 9780874216264
• ISBN: 978-0-87421-626-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 237 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Life Writings of Frontier Wome; Life Writings of Frontier Wome; Life Writings Frontier Women
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Autobiografien: allgemein, USA: Bügerkrieg und Wiederaufbau (1861 bis 1877 n. Chr.)