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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... COAST . A Mule Spirt , 227 ; A Wet Norther in Camp , 228 ; A Black Life , 229 ; The Prettiest Town in Texas , 231 ; Camp on the San Geronimo - Satisfied Whites , Dissatisfied Negro , 232 ; Spring in the Prairie , 233 ; Guadalupe Lands ...
... COAST . 356 ; The Ranch of Mr. Ujhazy , ex - Governor of Comorn ; Hungarians in Texas , Neu - Braunfels to Lagrange ; Lumber , 357 ; German Farmers in Eastern Texas ; Northern Settlers . 358 ; Free and Slave Labor together , 359 ; Capa ...
... coast , lie ten miles from the town , and communicate with it and the world by a branch railway . The transportation of this material forms one of the chief items of the income of the B. and O. Railroad . The price of the coal , for ...
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