A remarkable curiosity [electronic resource] : 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.
Publication details: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2008.Description: x, 371 p. : illISBN:- 9780870819261 (alk. paper)
- Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902 -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
- Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902 -- Correspondence
- 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
- 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
- 917.804/2 22
- F594 .C945 2008eb
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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. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.