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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
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Hardcover
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272 pages
Published
March 10th 2006
by Utah State University Press
(first published 2006)
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I also recently read a autobiography called Recollections of Past Days The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer, edited by Sandra Ailey Petree. This book was recommended to me by my sister-in-law, JanaRae. I found it fascinating. Patience had an amazing life. She was born in England and joined the LDS Church there with her family. They crossed the Atlantic by boat and joined the Martin Handcart Company. Her recollection of traveling the plains is fascinating. For those who don't know, t
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I'm glad Patient's journal was published. I am a descendant of her family, and a recipient of countless blessings because of their sacrifice and faith. This is Patient Loader's first hand account of following her faith, coming to America, and pulling a handcart thousands of miles across the plains in pursuit of Zion.
This book is one of the best written on the subject of the handcart companines. She is a very discriptive writer
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