Title: A remarkable curiosity
Description: "In 1873, Amos Jay Cummings, a decorated Civil War veteran and journalist for the New York Sun newspaper, set out on a westward journey aboard the newly completed transcontinental railroad. For some time, miners, settlers, and entrepreneurs had already been heading west to make their fortunes, and Cummings made the trip in part to see what all the fuss was about. During his six-month expedition from Kansas to California, Cummings sent extraordinary and engaging accounts of the American West back to his readers in New York." "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Biography, Correspondence, Description and travel, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Journalists, Natural history, Railroad travel, Social life and customs, Travel, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), Natural history, united states, Journalists, biography, West (u.s.), description and travel, West (u.s.), social life and customs, West (u.s.), history, West (u.s.), biography
Places: New York, New York (State), West (U.S.)
People: Amos J. Cummings (1841-1902)
Time periods: 1860-1890, 19th century