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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... Slavery in the United States — Texas . 3. Olmsted , Frederick Law , 1822-1903 . I. Title . II . Series : Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center . Barker Texas History Center series ; no . 2 . F391.0512 1978 917.64 78-7028 ISBN 0-292 ...
... slavery itself but upon the society that a slaveholding economy had produced . Frederick made this first trip in 1852 and 1853 and wrote so vividly and intelligently of what he found that Raymond was encouraged to send him off again ...
... slavery was as wasteful and inefficient as it was demoralizing . Stirred by the enthusiasm of Adolph Douai , the vigorous editor of the San Antonio Zeitung , Frederick continued for some years to promote a free - soil colony in West ...
... slavery results in bad agricultural practices . He could not resist attempting to spread the balm of rationality over an issue that had already scarred the body politic . He makes it clear that he regards slavery as morally ...
... slavery in the volume are incidental , but the extraordinary effect upon federal policy produced by fluctuation in the local market , where ownership in forced labor is the principal investment , imparts to observations within these new ...