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

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.

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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Main Author: Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902
Other Authors: Milanich, Jerald T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2008.
Subjects:
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.
New York (State) > New York
West United States
Biographies
History
Personal correspondence
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