Remarkable Curiosity
Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West
Remarkable Curiosity
Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West
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Hardback
£24.95
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 9780870819261
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 31/10/2008
Width: 14.5 cm
Height: 22.1 cm
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 wives, Ann Eliza Young, who was filing for divorce at the time of Cummings's arrival.Although today he is virtually unknown, during his lifetime Cummings was one of the most famous newspapermen in the United States, in part because of stories like these. Complete with a biographical sketch and historical introduction, A Remarkable Curiosity is an enjoyable read for anybody interested in the American West in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Amos Jay Cummings and His Journey across America The Flat Earth Society 65 1. Over the Kansas Plains 69 2. The Earthly Paradise 83 Crops of Grain, Stumps of Stone, and a Town without Rumbirds 09 3. A Canadian in Colorado 99 4. The Petrified Stumps 113 5. The Town in the Desert 193 Underlying Wealth 137 6. The Fate of a Gold Seeker 145 7. In the Golden Gulches 167 8. The Story of Little Emma 183 I Met a Man with Seventeen Wives: Divorce Mormon Style 911 9. The Seventeenth Wife 999 10. The Great Utah Divorce 937 11. An Interesting Conversation with Ann Eliza Young 931 12. The Prophet's Divorce 963 Strangers in a Strange Land 973 13. The Arizona Expedition 979 14. The Mormon Pioneers 909 15. The American Dead Sea 997 Lambs and Other Fauna to the Slaughter 309 16. Mutton Chops by the Million 319 17. The King of Jack Rabbits 395 18. The Funeral Postponed 331 19. Duel with Six-Shooters 341 The Return Trip Home 345 Bibliography 349;
