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050 00 $aBX8695.A72$bA3 2006
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100 1 $aArcher, Patience Loader,$d1827-1921.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005091944
245 10 $aRecollections of past days :$bthe autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer /$cedited by Sandra Ailey Petree.
260 $aLogan, Utah :$bUtah State University Press,$c2006.
300 $axii, 267 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aLife writings of frontier women ;$vv. 8
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index.
520 1 $a"For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. She left one of the most important records of those events. However, there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In fact, it is a bit unusual that someone with her social background and education would have left such an informative and engaging record of her life." "The daughter of an English gardener, Patience Loader became a boarding house servant, domestic maid, and seamstress. Her memoir includes a rich account of her life in and near London. Converted to Mormonism, she shipped with her parents to America. They joined the ill-fated company led by Edward Martin, which because of poor planning and a late start west, was caught inadequately prepared by severe high plains snowstorms in October and November 1856. The combined fatalities of the Martin and Willie companies made this the worst disaster in the history of overland travel. Patience's father, James Loader, was one of those who died." "Following her rescue to the Mormon settlements on the Wasatch Front, Patience Loader moved south to Utah Valley. There she met, and took the unusual step for a Mormon of marrying, a soldier, John Rozsa, who was stationed at Camp Floyd, northwest of Utah Lake. The troops there had made up the Utah Expedition, sent to ensure federal authority over the Mormons. Rozsa was a Hungarian immigrant and, according to Patience, a secret Mormon convert. When the Utah troops were recalled for the Civil War, Patience accompanied her husband, as an army laundress, to Washington, D.C. There she ran a boarding house and experienced some of the turmoil of life in the wartime capital while Rozsa served the Union both at a desk and in battle. After the war, he died at Fort Leavenworth of consumption, and Patience returned alone to Utah, where she found employment as a cook at a mining camp in American Fork Canyon. Her autobiography ends in 1872, but Patience remarried and had a relatively peaceful life till her death in 1922."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aArcher, Patience Loader,$d1827-1921.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005091944
650 0 $aMormon women$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010102371
650 0 $aMormon women$zEngland$vBiography.
610 20 $aEdward Martin Emigrating Company.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98005399
650 0 $aMormons$xEmigration and immigration.
611 20 $aUtah Expedition$d(1857-1858)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008018037
700 1 $aPetree, Sandra Ailey,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005091929
830 0 $aLife writings of frontier women ;$vv. 8.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96008550
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005036652.html
852 00 $bbar,stor$hBX8695.A72$iA3 2006