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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... prairies would work a miracle and keep him alive . Frederick , for his part , hoped to find on those same prairies something that might eventually improve the moral health of the republic : a place where the virtues of free - soil ...
... prairies of central Texas appealed to the farmer in him , and also to the utopian . He saw there an opportunity for a society to develop which might yet escape the curse which lay on so much of the nation . The Olmsted brothers were ...
... Prairie , 89 ; Trinity River Navigation , 90 ; Trinity Bottom - lands ; Sale of Lands and Hands , 91 ; Leon County , 92 ; The Centreville Hotel , Across the Brazos ; Saddle and Tent Life , 95 ; Venison ; The Prairies , 97 ; The First ...
... Prairie Fire , 215 ; After the Battle ; Qui vive ! —A Narrow Escape , 220 ; Game , 223 ; " Heaps " of Bears , 224 . CHAPTER IV . A TRIP TO THE COAST . A Mule Spirt , 227 ; A Wet Norther in Camp , 228 ; A Black Life , 229 ; The Prettiest ...
... Prairie , 360 ; Houston ; Business , Cotton Dépôt , Amusements , Tar Cisterns , 361 ; Germans ; Mag- nolias ; A Runaway Captured , 362 ; A Damaged Property ; Slave Trade at Houston ; The Low Prairies , 363 ; Results of Personal ...