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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... West Texas , hoping to convince everyone by sheer weight of crop yield that slavery was detrimental to sound agricultural practice . The Olmsteds stayed in central , south , and southeastern Texas for about four months . They had hoped ...
... state interesting facts in the social condition of the agricultural , compared with other classes , to support this view . I suppose that in Kansas , and I am sure that in Western Texas , if slavery did not interfere , a laboring man ...
... Texas as it used to be , 123 ; Law and Gospel , 126 ; Church and State ; The Present Social State of Texas , 127 . CHAPTER III . ROUTE THROUGH WESTERN TEXAS . Over the Colorado ; The Prairies , 129 ; Western Landscapes ; A Mule Lesson ...
... Texas , Neu - Braunfels to Lagrange ; Lumber , 357 ; German Farmers in Eastern Texas ; Northern Settlers . 358 ; Free ... Western Louisiana , 391 ; Among the Creoles , 395 ; An Exile from Old Virginia , 397 ; A " Native Dutch Frenchman's ...
... Texas , 419 ; Eastern Texas , 423 ; Central Texas , 424 ; Sugar ; Western Texas , 425 ; Number and Position of the Germans , 428 ; Competition and Collision of Free and Slave Labor ; Political Divisions among the Germans , 433 ; History ...