A remarkable curiosity

Cummings, Amos J. 1841-1902.

A remarkable curiosity dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West / [electronic resource] : Amos Jay Cummings ; edited and compiled by Jerald T. Milanich. - Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2008. - x, 371 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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9780870819261 (alk. paper)




Cummings, Amos J. 1841-1902 --Travel--West (U.S.)
Cummings, Amos J. 1841-1902 --Correspondence.


Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
Natural history--West (U.S.)
Journalists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Railroad travel--History--West (U.S.)--19th century.


West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
West (U.S.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.
West (U.S.)--Biography.


Electronic books.

F594 / .C945 2008eb

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