A Journey through Texas
Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
Before he became America's foremost landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was by turns a surveyor, merchant seaman, farmer, magazine publisher, and traveling newspaper correspondent. In 1856-57 he took a saddle trip through Texas to see the country and report on its lands and peoples. His description of the Lone Star State on the eve of the Civil War remains one of the best accounts of the American West ever published. Unvarnished by sentiment or myth making, based on firsthand observations, and backed with statistical research, Olmsted's narrative captures the manners, foods, entertainments, and conversations of the Texans,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-8620-7
- EAN: 9780803286207
- Produktnummer: 9168494
- Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 539 S.
- Masse: H13.5 cm x B20.4 cm x D2.9 cm 592 g
- Abbildungen: Map, illustration, 31 tables
- Gewicht: 592
Über den Autor
Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include the J. Anthony Lukas Prize winner A Clearing in The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century and The Perfect House.
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