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Recollections of Past Days: The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer

edited by Sandra Ailey Petree

Utah State University Press, 2006

ISBNs

Cloth: 978-0-87421-626-4

eISBN: 978-0-87421-531-1

About the Book
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.
About the Author
Sandra Petree teaches literature as a member of the English faculty at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and was originally drawn to this autobiography as a literary text. While her historical annotation is thorough, she also considers the memoir as the self-inscription of an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things and then, as best she could, gave them a vivid expressive form. Petree = s edition of Loader fits well the literary as well as historical aims of series editor Maureen Ursenbach Beecher.
Tags
Life Writings Frontier Women, Recollections, Latter Day Saint pioneers, (1857-1858), Edward Martin Emigrating Company, Utah Expedition, Utah Expedition 1857-1858, Emigration and immigration, Civil War Period (1850-1877), England, 19th Century, Biography, United States, History
Open Access Information

Label: This book is freely available in digital formats through the Utah State University Library Digital Commons.

License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0