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Author Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902.

Title A remarkable curiosity : dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West / Amos Jay Cummings ; edited and compiled by Jerald T. Milanich
Published Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : illustrations
Contents Over the Kansas plains -- The earthly paradise -- A Canadian in Colorado -- The Petrified stumps -- The town in the desert -- The fate of a gold seeker -- In the golden gulches -- The story of little Emma -- The seventeenth wife -- The great Utah divorce -- An interesting conversation with Ann Eliza Young -- The prophet's divorce -- The Arizona expedition -- The Mormon pioneers -- The American Dead Sea -- Mutton chops by the million -- The king of the jack rabbits -- The funeral postponed -- Duel with six-shooters
Summary Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings's portraits of a land and its assortment of characters unlike anything back East. Characters like Pedro Armijo, the New Mexican sheep tycoon who took Denver by storm, and more prominently the Mormon prophet Brigham Young and one of his wives, Ann Eliza Young, who was filing for divorce at the time of Cummings's arrival.<br /> <br />Although today he is virtually unknown, during his lifetime Cummings was one of the most famous newspapermen in the United States, in part because of stories like these. Complete with a biographical sketch and historical introduction, A Remarkable Curiosity is an enjoyable read for anybody interested in the American West in the latter half of the nineteenth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-353) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902 -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902 fast
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Natural history -- West (U.S.)
Journalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Railroad travel -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
TRAVEL -- General.
TRAVEL.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Frontier and pioneer life
Journalists
Manners and customs
Natural history
Railroad travel
Travel
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146142
West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93004749
West (U.S.) -- Biography
Subject New York (State) -- New York
West United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Milanich, Jerald T.
LC no. 2008025223
ISBN 9780870819858
0870819852
1457110458
9781457110450