A 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. Milanich
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Cummings Amos J (Amos Jay), <1841-1902.>
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| Titolo: |
A 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. Milanich
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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder, Colo., : University Press of Colorado, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 917.804/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) |
| Natural history - West (U.S.) | |
| Journalists - New York (State) - New York | |
| Railroad travel - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) Description and travel |
| West (U.S.) Social life and customs 19th century | |
| West (U.S.) History 1860-1890 | |
| West (U.S.) Biography | |
| Altri autori: |
MilanichJerald T
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-4571-1045-8 |
| 0-87081-985-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816512703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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