Olmsted does not romanticize the discomforts of his tripthe monotonous food, crude housing, wet and dry northers, rough companionsyet 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."
Olmsted does not romanticize the discomforts of his tripthe monotonous food, crude housing, wet and dry northers, rough companionsyet 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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A Journey through Texas; or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
564Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780292740082 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 07/01/1978 |
Series: | Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series , #2 |
Pages: | 564 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d) |