03524nam 2200733 a 450 991081651270332120200520144314.01-4571-1045-80-87081-985-2(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)99100000000081621020080605d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA 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. Milanich1st ed.Boulder, Colo. University Press of Coloradoc20081 online resource (385 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87081-926-7 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.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.Frontier and pioneer lifeWest (U.S.)Natural historyWest (U.S.)JournalistsNew York (State)New YorkBiographyRailroad travelWest (U.S.)History19th centuryWest (U.S.)Description and travelWest (U.S.)Social life and customs19th centuryWest (U.S.)History1860-1890West (U.S.)BiographyFrontier and pioneer lifeNatural historyJournalistsRailroad travelHistory917.804/2Cummings Amos J(Amos Jay),1841-1902.1750969Milanich Jerald T1640493MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816512703321A remarkable curiosity4185758UNINA