A Remarkable Curiosity : Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455237603321
• Autore: Cummings Amos
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sebastopol : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2011; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-4571-1045-8; 0-87081-985-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 917.804/2
• Soggetti: Travel; Railroad travel; Natural history; Manners and customs; Journalists; Frontier and pioneer life; Cummings, Amos J - (Amos Jay) - 1841-1902 - Travel - West (U.S.); Railroad travel - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century; Journalists - New York (State) - New York; Natural history - West (U.S.); Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.); Personal correspondence; History; Biographies.; Electronic books.; West United States; New York (State) New York; West (U.S.) Biography; West (U.S.) History 1860-1890; West (U.S.) Social life and customs 19th century; West (U.S.) Description and travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 12: The Prophet's DivorceStrangers in a Strange Land; 13: The Arizona Expedition; 14: THe Mormon Pioneers; 15: The American Dead Sea; Lambs and Other Fauna to the Slaughter; 16: Mutton Chops by the Million; 17: The King of the Jack Rabbits; 18: The Funeral Postponed; 19: Duel with Six-Shooters; The Return Trip Home; Bibliography; Index.; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Intro: Amos Jay Cummings andHis Journey across America; The Flat Earth Society; 1: Over the Kansas Plains; 2: The Earthly Paradise; Crops of Grain, Stumps of Stone, and a Town without Rumbirds; 3: A Canadian in Colorado; 4: The Petrified Stumps; 5: The Town in the Desert; Underlying Wealth; 6: The Fate of a Gold Seeker; 7: In the Golden Gulches; 8: The Story of Little Emma; I Met a Man with Seventeen Wives:Divorce Mormon Style; 9: The Seventeenth Wife; 10: The Great Utah Divorce; 11: An Interesting Conversationwith Ann Eliza Young.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1873, Amos Jay Cummings, a decorated Civil War veteran and journalist for the New York Sun newspaper, set out on a westward journey aboard the newly completed transcontinental railroad. For some time, miners, settlers, and entrepreneurs had already been heading west to make their fortunes, and Cummings made the trip in part to see what all the fuss was about. During his six-month expedition from Kansas to California, Cummings sent extraordinary and engaging accounts of the American West back to his readers in New York. Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings's portraits of.