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Remarkable Curiosity
Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West
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2008
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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.
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Curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and professor of anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Florida, Jerald T. Milanich has written over twenty books and has received a number of awards, including the James Mooney Book Award, the Rembert Patrick Book Prize (twice), and the American Association for State and Local History Book Award.
Reviews
“Take a pinch of Mark Twain, add a dash of Studs Terkel, and you'll have the recipe for Amos Jay Cummings' westward-ho dispatches for the New York Sun... This collection brims with anecdotes about the American originals who settled West - farmers, gamblers, townsfolk, scoundrels, Native-Americans, prospectors, gunslingers, and Mormons - brought to life by one sharp newspaper man."
—ForeWord
—ForeWord
"A fun, engaging read for anybody interested in the Old West. Thanks to Milanich's desire to share these dispatches and his appreciation of Cummings's literary and linguistic value, a forgotten journalist can absorb an audience again."
—Newwest.net
—Newwest.net
"This remarkable book provides a rare, intimate look at the American West as it was evolving during the years immediately following the Civil War."
—Larry Cox, The Tucson Citizen
—Larry Cox, The Tucson Citizen
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
ix - A Remarkable Curiosity
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Amos Jay Cummings and His Journey across America
1 - The Flat Earth Society
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1 Over the Kansas Plains.
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2 The Earthly Paradise.
83 - Crops of Grain, Stumps of Stone, and a Town without Rumbirds
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3 A Canadian in Colorado.
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4 The Petrified Stumps.
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5 The Town in the Desert.
123 - Underlying Wealth
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6 The Fate of a Gold Seeker.
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7 In the Golden Gulches.
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8 The Story of Little Emma.
183 - I Met a Man with Seventeen Wives: Divorce Mormon Style
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9 The Seventeenth Wife.
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10 The Great Utah Divorce.
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11 An Interesting Conversation with Ann Eliza Young.
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12 The Prophet’s Divorce.
263 - Strangers in a Strange Land
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13 The Arizona Expedition.
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14 The Mormon Pioneers.
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15 The American Dead Sea.
297 - Lambs and Other Fauna to the Slaughter
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16 Mutton Chops by the Million.
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17 The King of Jack Rabbits.
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18 The Funeral Postponed.
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19 Duel with Six-Shooters.
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The Return Trip Home
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Bibliography
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Index
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December 6, 2024
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9780870819858
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