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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... passing stranger can shake your confidence in the great higher law of demand and supply ? That slavery cannot be forced by any legis- lation to exist for an injurious period in any country or region where free labor would , on the whole ...
... passed without rebuke ; apparently with entire public and offi- cial indifference . It was looked upon as one of the necessary and pardonable occurrences of a frontier . Would this have been the case , if it had happened on the ...
... passed , are agreeable enough , even at this season , to be called charming — tasteful houses , standing on natural lawns among natural park - groups of oak , with river views and glimpses . The price of land for such places , within ...
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