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Using an external program to set an arbitrary baud on an FTDI USB->Serial adapter I can now see the ESP-8266 bootloader messages on minicom (a terminal emulator). I put together instructions in case anyone else is running into the issue:

http://sensornodeinfo.rockingdlabs.com/blog/2016/01/19/baud74880/

For more information on this see http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2664&hilit=74880