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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... seen no such evidences of waste as , in Texas , I have after ten years of slavery . And indications of the same kind I have observed , not isolated , but general , in every Slave State but two — which I have seen only in parts yet ...
... seen the South , knows its condition , and main- tains friendly communication with slaveholders . This indicates , in my opinion , the only way in which the peo- ple of the North can be tempted to use the control they already actually ...
... seen- but he was a Virginian . After this the road follows up the valley as far as Cumberland , coming upon new and wilder beauties at every bend of the stream . But a day in a railway car is , in the best surroundings , a tedious thing ...
... seen a view which is , in its way , unsurpassed , and , but a few minutes ' walk above it , is a wooded gorge , into which a road enters as into monstrous jaws , and , after sunset , the heart fairly quakes , spite of reason , to ...
... seen under cultivation . They are grown as on the Rhine , attached to small stakes three or four feet high , and some three by six feet apart . What a pity the more graceful Italian mode of swinging long vine - branches from tree to ...