Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Remarkable Curiosity
5. Amos Jay Cummings and His Journey across America 1
6. The Flat Earth Society
7. 1 Over the Kansas Plains. 69
8. 2 The Earthly Paradise. 83
9. Crops of Grain, Stumps of Stone, and a Town without Rumbirds
10. 3 A Canadian in Colorado. 99
11. 4 The Petrified Stumps. 113
12. 5 The Town in the Desert. 123
13. Underlying Wealth
14. 6 The Fate of a Gold Seeker. 145
15. 7 In the Golden Gulches. 167
16. 8 The Story of Little Emma. 183
17. I Met a Man with Seventeen Wives: Divorce Mormon Style
18. 9 The Seventeenth Wife. 229
19. 10 The Great Utah Divorce. 237
20. 11 An Interesting Conversation with Ann Eliza Young. 251
21. 12 The Prophet’s Divorce. 263
22. Strangers in a Strange Land
23. 13 The Arizona Expedition. 279
24. 14 The Mormon Pioneers. 289
25. 15 The American Dead Sea. 297
26. Lambs and Other Fauna to the Slaughter
27. 16 Mutton Chops by the Million. 319
28. 17 The King of Jack Rabbits. 325
29. 18 The Funeral Postponed. 331
30. 19 Duel with Six-Shooters. 341
31. The Return Trip Home 345
32. Bibliography 349
33. Index 355