Bibliograph

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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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A remarkable curiosity

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

225875266

Responsibility statement

Amos Jay Cummings ; edited and compiled by Jerald T. Milanich

Sub title

dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West

Table Of Contents

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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