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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... hands , and in doing this he has drawn frankly upon memory for his own sensations . The lapse of two years may have breathed a little dullness on the pictures thus recalled , but it has served , also , to cool and harden any glow in the ...
... hands and his wits , glad to come where there is a glut of food and a dearth of labor , soon presents himself . To construct a causeway and a bridge , and to clear , fence , and break up the land he desires to bring into cultivation ...
... hands . He plants cotton largely — quite all that his laborers can cul- tivate properly . Generally , a certain force will cultivate more than it can pick , pack , and transport to public conveyance . Unwilling to lose the overplus , he ...
... hands of half your house - servants , or may have been given to any slave who purchases a plug of tobacco at a gro- cery . This message , or almost any of the speeches made by Southern members in the debate upon it , which have , in ...