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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.

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