02784cam a2200289 4500 2279782889 TxAuBib 20250529120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780874215311 0874215315 B01DKII0B4 Amazon fa8220bf-d6be-424e-8524-a4410b240562 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5649149 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Petree, Sandra Ailey. Recollections of Past Days [Bridges eBook] : The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer. Utah State University Press, 2006. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>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. Her record of those events is important, but there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In fact, it is a bit unusual that someone such as her would have left such an engaging record of her life.</p> <p>The daughter of an English gardener, Patience Loader became a boarding house servant, domestic maid, and seamstress. Converted to Mormonism, she shipped with her parents to America. They joined the ill-fated Martin company, which because of poor planning and a late start west, was caught poorly 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 was one of those who died. After reaching Utah, Patience took the unusual step for a Mormon of marrying a soldier, John Rozsa, stationed at Camp Floyd. The troops there had made up the Utah Expedition, sent to ensure federal authority over the Mormons. Rozsa was a Hungarian immigrant and Mormon convert. When the Utah troops were recalled for the Civil War, Patience accompanied her husband, as an army laundress, to Washington, D.C., running a boarding house while Rozsa fought. After the war, he died at Fort Leavenworth of consumption, and Patience returned alone to Utah, where she became a cook at a mining camp in American Fork Canyon. Her autobiography ends there in 1872, though she lived till 1922.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-05-28 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fa8220bf-d6be-424e-8524-a4410b240562&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fa8220bf-d6be-424e-8524-a4410b240562&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)