Title 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.

Publication Info.	Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2008]
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Description	1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-353) and index.
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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Subject	Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902 -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
	Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902.
	Travel.
	Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902 -- Correspondence.
Genre/Form	Correspondence.
Subject	Cummings, Amos J., 1841-1902 (Cummings, Amos Jay) -- Travel -- West (U. S.) -- Correspondence.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
	Frontier and pioneer life.
	Natural history -- West (U.S.)
	Natural history.
	Journalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
	Journalists.
	New York (State) -- New York.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Railroad travel -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
	Railroad travel.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	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.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Records and correspondence.
	Personal correspondence.
	Personal correspondence.
	Biographies.
Added Author	Milanich, Jerald T.
Other Form:	Print version: Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902. Remarkable curiosity. Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2008 (DLC) 2008025223
ISBN	9780870819858 (electronic book)
	0870819852 (electronic book)
	9780870819261 (alkaline paper)
	0870819267 (alkaline paper)

Title 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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