Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Gebundenes Buch

Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 6

Dispatches from the Wild West: From Brigham Young to Mark Twain

Herausgeber: Dulchinos, Donald P; Crimi, Stephen

Beschreibung

Fitz Hugh Ludlow's newspaper reports from an undeveloped American West covered buffalo hunts, Civil War refugees, the gold mines of Colorado, the first views of the Mormon Zion of Utah, and at the west coast end of the journey, he befriended Mark Twain. All the while drawing in fantastic prose the beauty of the Rockies and the untamed west.

Autor

Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870) was an American writer of travelogues, short stories, novels, art criticism, science and drug literature related to hashish and opium cures. He is mostly known for The Hasheesh Eater and Across the Continent, his description of and Overland Stage journey with the painter Albert Bierstadt. HIs friends and acquaintances ranged from Mark Twain to Brigham Young to Walt Whitman, and he was an integral part of the creation of the Bohemian scene in New York City.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Logosophia
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 826g
• ISBN-13: 9780996639484
• ISBN-10: 0996639489
• Artikelnr.: 50989376