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A remarkable curiosity dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West / by Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902

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.…”
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The letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733-1748 by Franks, Abigail, 1696-1756

“…Lee Max Friedman collection of American Jewish colonial correspondence.…”
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