Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 6
Dispatches from the Wild West: From Brigham Young to Mark Twain
Published on 2. February 2018
Book
Hardback
460 pages
978-0-9966394-8-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
826 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9966394-8-4 (9780996639484)
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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.