TY - BOOK AU - Cummings,Amos J. AU - Milanich,Jerald T. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - A remarkable curiosity: dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West AV - F594 .C945 2008eb U1 - 917.804/2 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Boulder, Colo. PB - University Press of Colorado KW - Cummings, Amos J. KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - West (U.S.) KW - Natural history KW - Journalists KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Biography KW - Railroad travel KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Description and travel KW - Social life and customs KW - 1860-1890 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10333628 ER -