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The Florida Adventures of Amos Jay Cummings 1873-1893
Beginning in 1873, the mysterious adventurer "Ziska" wrote newspaper articles about the exciting frontier wilderness of Florida for his readers in New York City. Florida was largely untamed region with many colorful characters, while New York City was on the cutting edge of innovation with a subway, telephone service, and newspaper readers fascinated by Ziska's exploits in the wild "land of flowers." For more than a century, Ziska's writings were forgotten and undisturbed in the New York Public Library. When eminent Florida archaeologist Jerald T. Milanich discovered the articles, he was determined to find out more about their mysterious author. Ziska turns out to be the pen name of Civil War hero, journalist, Tammany boss, and U.S. Congressman Amos J. Cummings. In this book, Milanich reintroduces readers to the exciting stories of Cummings as he explores the young state of Florida.
A Remarkable Curiosity
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...
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The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918
This book chronicles the history of The Sun, a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper, like the city's two more successful broadsheets, The New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune.
Adventure Journalism in the Gilded Age
These new essays tell the stories of daring reporters, male and female, sent out by their publishers not to capture the news but to make the news--indeed to achieve star billing--and to capitalize on the Gilded Age public's craze for real-life adventures into the exotic and unknown. They examine the adventure journalism genre through the work of iconic writers such as Mark Twain and Nellie Bly, as well as lesser-known journalistic masters such as Thomas Knox and Eliza Scidmore, who took to the rivers and oceans, mineshafts and mountains, rails and trails of the late nineteenth century, shaping Americans' perceptions of the world and of themselves.
Lincoln at Cooper Union
Winner of the Lincoln Prize Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives. Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times -- an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory as entertainme...
