A remarkable curiosity : dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West /
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 wi...
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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.
