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

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 Cu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cummings, Amos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sebastopol : University Press of Colorado, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cummings, Amos J. > (Amos Jay), > 1841-1902.
Cummings, Amos J. > (Amos Jay), > 1841-1902 > Correspondence.
Cummings, Amos J. > (Amos Jay), > 1841-1902 > Travel > West (U.S.)
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 > Biography.
Natural history > West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
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.
Personal correspondence.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (384 pages).
ISBN:9780870819858

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