Path to Progress Educational Project

If you are in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, check out the Civil War History Day at Fort Douglas Military Museum! https://www.facebook.com/events/2881394848830465?ref=newsfeed

Patience crossed the country twice, lived through the history of the West from living through the Martin Handcart disaster, surviving, ironing at Camp Floyd, during the Civil War, and at mining towns, she worked in boarding houses. She is a one-woman history lesson.

Patience Loader was a survivor in every sense of the word. Patience, her mother, brothers, and sisters continued down the Mormon trail.

They were in the Martin Handcart Company of 1856. She was a legend in her own time for coming out of the handcart disaster unscathed. She stayed with friends first in SLC, then in Lehi. Brother John C. Naile (Neagle) and sister Naile had Patience live with them in their house in the town of Lehi. She married a soldier, Sgt. John Rozsa and they lived at Camp Floyd in 1858. At Camp Floyd, she ironed while John did the washing part of them sharing the job of a military laundress.

When the Civil War broke out, they went back east. Her husband survived the Civil War but got sick on the journey on the Overland Trail. He died and Patience came back with her four children to Pleasant Grove. She supported her family by cooking at two different miner’s boarding houses. Her journeys spanned almost the whole continent and her life was a bridge from the territorial period to Twentieth-Century Utah state history.

Now until 4:30 pm.

Opening day of my history of small businesswomen exhibit, Path to Progress until 4:30 pm.

Today is the Grand Opening of the Path to Progress exhibit. Michelle Tucker, MA

Tomorrow, Friday is the Opening Day of the Path to Progress exhibit at Camp Floyd State Park in Fairfield, which is 8-9 degrees cooler than Lehi.😊 I will be there in historical attire to answer questions. Michelle Tucker

The Path to Progress exhibit starts in 2 days with me there on Friday!

This is the Kahoot! game that goes with the exhibit, which is coming soon! The Path to Progress exhibit opens on Friday, Aug. 21 9:30 am - 5 pm at Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park and Museum before you get to Five Mile Pass.

Play Kahoot! | Early Businesswomen’s History in the Intermountain West - Path to Progress Exhibit Game Play this kahoot about A fun interactive game that takes you on a scavenger hunt of the Path to Progress: History of Early Small Business Women on the Central Overland Route.

I developed a PowerPoint presentation. I gave a 90 min. presentation on Saturday, which went really well.

I am presenting my Master's in History research "Path to Progress: Early Businesswomen's History in the Intermountain West" at the Living History weekend on Saturday, July 11, 3:15 pm - 5 pm. Then, Brad Gurney will tell thrilling stories at the Campfire at 7 pm - past sunset all at Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park, Fairfield, Utah. Michelle Tucker