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A Remarkable Curiosity : Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West



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Autore: Cummings Amos Visualizza persona
Titolo: A Remarkable Curiosity : Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Sebastopol : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2011
©2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
Disciplina: 917.804/2
Soggetto topico: Travel
Railroad travel
Natural history
Manners and customs
Journalists
Frontier and pioneer life
Cummings, Amos J - (Amos Jay) - 1841-1902 - Travel - West (U.S.)
Railroad travel - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century
Journalists - New York (State) - New York
Natural history - West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
Soggetto geografico: West United States
New York (State) New York
West (U.S.) Biography
West (U.S.) History 1860-1890
West (U.S.) Social life and customs 19th century
West (U.S.) Description and travel
Soggetto genere / forma: Personal correspondence
History
Biographies.
Altri autori: MilanichJerald T  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: A Remarkable Curiosity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4571-1045-8
0-87081-985-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778533303321
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