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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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 371 p. :; ill. |
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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.