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UNINA9910816512703321 |
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Autore |
Cummings Amos J (Amos Jay), <1841-1902.> |
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Titolo |
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 |
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Boulder, Colo., : University Press of Colorado, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-4571-1045-8 |
0-87081-985-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) |
Natural history - West (U.S.) |
Journalists - New York (State) - New York |
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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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