04722oam 22009734a 450 991045523760332120211004153053.01-4571-1045-80-87081-985-2(CKB)1000000000816210(EBL)710206(OCoLC)775301648(SSID)ssj0000342310(PQKBManifestationID)11231026(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342310(PQKBWorkID)10284754(PQKB)10491597(MiAaPQ)EBC3039701(MiAaPQ)EBC710206(Au-PeEL)EBL3039701(CaPaEBR)ebr10333628(OCoLC)506069184(Au-PeEL)EBL710206(CaONFJC)MIL913669(OCoLC)1273305906(MdBmJHUP)musev2_85405(EXLCZ)99100000000081621020120206d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA Remarkable CuriosityDispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West1st ed.Sebastopol :University Press of Colorado,2011.©2011.1 online resource (385 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87081-926-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index.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.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.Travelfast(OCoLC)fst01155558Railroad travelfast(OCoLC)fst01088689Natural historyfast(OCoLC)fst01034268Manners and customsfast(OCoLC)fst01007815Journalistsfast(OCoLC)fst00984188Frontier and pioneer lifefast(OCoLC)fst00935370Cummings, Amos J(Amos Jay)1841-1902TravelWest (U.S.)bisacshRailroad travelWest (U.S.)History19th centuryJournalistsNew York (State)New YorkBiographyNatural historyWest (U.S.)Frontier and pioneer lifeWest (U.S.)West United StatesfastNew York (State)New YorkfastWest (U.S.)BiographyWest (U.S.)History1860-1890West (U.S.)Social life and customs19th centuryWest (U.S.)Description and travelPersonal correspondence.History.Biographies.Electronic books. Travel.Railroad travel.Natural history.Manners and customs.Journalists.Frontier and pioneer life.Cummings, Amos J.(Amos Jay)1841-1902TravelRailroad travelHistoryJournalistsNatural historyFrontier and pioneer life917.804/2Cummings Amos1070819MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910455237603321A Remarkable Curiosity2565146UNINA