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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.

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  1. Pref00.
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  1. Title.
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  1. Foreword
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Introduction
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  1. Pref02.
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  1. England 1827–December 1855
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  1. Pref03.
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  1. On the John J. Boyd December 1855–February 1856
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  1. America February–July 1856
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  1. Starting Westward July 3–July 28, 1856
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  1. On the Plains July 28–November 30, 1856
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  1. In the Valley November 30, 1856 –December 1858
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  1. Camp Floyd December 1858–July 27, 1861
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  1. On The Trail to Washington July 27–November, 1861
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  1. Washington November 1861–April 1866
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  1. Back to Utah April 18–July 21, 1866
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  1. Back in the Valley July 21, 1866 –1872
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  1. Afterword
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  1. Appendix 1 James and Amy Britnell Loader Family
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  1. Appendix 2 John and Patience Loader Rozsa Family
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  1. Appendix 3 The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star on Handcart Emigration, December 22, 1855
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  1. Appendix 4 The Mormon on Handcart Emigration, December 1, 1855
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  1. Appendix 5 Patience Loader to John Jaques and His Reply, The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, June 14, 1856
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  1. Appendix 6 Marshall Loader to Amy Britnell Loader
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  1. Appendix 7 Patience Loader Rozsa Archer to Tamar Loader Ricks
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  1. Notes
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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Index
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  1. Note.
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  1. Bib.
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  1. Index.
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