Cummings, Amos J.  1841-1902. <br/><br/>
A remarkable curiosity  dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West /  [electronic resource] : 
Amos Jay Cummings ; edited and compiled by Jerald T. Milanich. 
 - Boulder, Colo. :  University Press of Colorado,  c2008. 
 - x, 371 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cummings, Amos J. 1841-1902 --Travel--West (U.S.)<br/>Cummings, Amos J. 1841-1902 --Correspondence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)<br/>Natural history--West (U.S.)<br/>Journalists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.<br/>Railroad travel--History--West (U.S.)--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>West (U.S.)--Description and travel.<br/>West (U.S.)--Social life and customs--19th century.<br/>West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.<br/>West (U.S.)--Biography.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F594  / .C945 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>917.804/2