A remarkable curiosity : dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West /

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Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings's portraits of a land and its assortment of characters unlike anything back East. Characters like Pedro Armijo, the New Mexican sheep tycoon who took Denver by storm, and more prominently the Mormon prophet Brigham Young and one of his wi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902
Autres auteurs: Milanich, Jerald T.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2008.
Sujets:
Cummings, Amos J. > (Amos Jay), > 1841-1902 > Travel > West (U.S.)
Cummings, Amos J. > (Amos Jay), > 1841-1902 > Correspondence.
Cummings, Amos J. > (Amos Jay), > 1841-1902
1800-1899
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Natural history > West (U.S.)
Journalists > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Railroad travel > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
TRAVEL > General.
TRAVEL.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Frontier and pioneer life
Journalists
Manners and customs
Natural history
Railroad travel
Travel
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.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Descriptions et voyages.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 1860-1890.
New York (State) > New York
West United States
Biographies
History
Personal correspondence
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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