LEADER 03524nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910816512703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 $a20080605d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA remarkable curiosity $edispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West /$fAmos Jay Cummings ; edited and compiled by Jerald T. Milanich 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBoulder, Colo. $cUniversity Press of Colorado$dc2008 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 $aOver 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. 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 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aNatural history$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aJournalists$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aRailroad travel$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xDescription and travel 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y1860-1890 607 $aWest (U.S.)$vBiography 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 615 0$aNatural history 615 0$aJournalists 615 0$aRailroad travel$xHistory 676 $a917.804/2 700 $aCummings$b Amos J$g(Amos Jay),$f1841-1902.$01750969 701 $aMilanich$b Jerald T$01640493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816512703321 996 $aA remarkable curiosity$94185758 997 $aUNINA