A Journey through Texas; or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern FrontierUniversity of Texas Press, 22. 7. 2010 - Počet stran: 564 Early in the year 1854 Frederick Law Olmsted, a young New England journalist, crossed the Louisiana border and set off on horseback into the teeth of the Texas winter. In A Journey through Texas he recounts his travels along the Old San Antonio Road through East Texas' piney woods, the dry prairies further west, the chaparral of South Texas, the coastal prairies, and the rich bottomlands around Houston and Galveston. Olmsted does not romanticize the discomforts of his trip—the monotonous food, crude housing, wet and dry northers, rough companions—yet his book reflects a sense of limitless possibility for this new and open country. The cultured Easterner remembers in relentless detail the squalor and brutality met with in parts of East Texas, but he writes fondly of the civility and cleanliness of the German settlements around New Braunfels. In his introductory "A Letter to a Southern Friend," omitted in earlier reprints, Olmsted sets forth his views opposing the extension of slavery into the West and promoting free-soil agriculture for frontier states. The remarkably versatile Olmsted is best known as the founder of landscape architecture in America and for works including Central Park and Stanford University. In his Foreword, Larry McMurtry calls A Journey through Texas an "intelligent, lively, readable book, packed with keen observation and lightened by a delicate strain of humor." |
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... Orleans and thence home , while Frederick rode north and re- turned by way of the " back country " : Mississippi , Tennessee , Georgia , and North Carolina . This trip and the one that preceded it yielded Frederick Law Olm- sted three ...
... Orleans to buy him one : when he arrives , he has cost not less than two of the five thousand dollars . The Iowan , in the same predica- ment , writes to a friend in the East or advertises in the newspapers , that he is ready to pay ...
... Creoles , 395 ; An Exile from Old Virginia , 397 ; A " Native Dutch Frenchman's " Farm , 401 ; Arrival in Civilization , 405 , To New Orleans , 407 CHAPTER VII . GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS . Historical and Actual Position INDEX . xxxiii.
... Orleans . She was a noble vessel , having on board every arrange- ment for comfortable travel , including a table of which the best hotel would not be ashamed . The passage to Cincinnati occupies thirty - six hours . From some ...
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