LEADER 04722oam 22009734a 450 001 9910455237603321 005 20211004153053.0 010 $a1-4571-1045-8 010 $a0-87081-985-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000816210 035 $a(EBL)710206 035 $a(OCoLC)775301648 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342310 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11231026 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342310 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10284754 035 $a(PQKB)10491597 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039701 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC710206 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039701 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10333628 035 $a(OCoLC)506069184 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL710206 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL913669 035 $a(OCoLC)1273305906 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_85405 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000816210 100 $a20120206d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Remarkable Curiosity$eDispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSebastopol :$cUniversity Press of Colorado,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011. 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87081-926-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index. 327 $a12: 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. 327 $aCopyright; 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aTravel$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01155558 606 $aRailroad travel$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01088689 606 $aNatural history$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01034268 606 $aManners and customs$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01007815 606 $aJournalists$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00984188 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00935370 606 $aCummings, Amos J$x(Amos Jay)$x1841-1902$xTravel$zWest (U.S.)$2bisacsh 606 $aRailroad travel$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aJournalists$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aNatural history$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zWest (U.S.) 607 $aWest United States$2fast 607 $aNew York (State)$zNew York$2fast 607 $aWest (U.S.)$vBiography 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y1860-1890 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xDescription and travel 608 $aPersonal correspondence. 608 $aHistory. 608 $aBiographies. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTravel. 615 0$aRailroad travel. 615 0$aNatural history. 615 0$aManners and customs. 615 0$aJournalists. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life. 615 10$aCummings, Amos J.$x(Amos Jay)$x1841-1902$xTravel 615 0$aRailroad travel$xHistory 615 0$aJournalists 615 0$aNatural history 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 676 $a917.804/2 700 $aCummings$b Amos$01070819 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455237603321 996 $aA Remarkable Curiosity$92565146 997 $aUNINA