Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.

A journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier / by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]

xviii, 539 pages ; 21 cm

"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, as well as their housing, agriculture, business, exotic animals, changeable weather, and the pervasive influence of slavery."
"Back and forth from the Sabine to the Rio Grande, through San Augustine, Nacogdoches, San Marcos, San Antonio, Neu-Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Lavaca, Indianola, Goliad, Castroville, La Grange, Houston, Harrisburg, and Beaumont, Olmsted rode and questioned and listened and reported. Texas was then already a multiethnic and multiracial state, where Americans, Germans, Mexicans, Africans, and Indians of numerous tribes mixed uneasily. Olmsted interviewed planters, scouts, innkeepers, bartenders, housewives, drovers, loafers, Indian chiefs, priests, runaway slaves, and emigrants and refugees from every part of the known world - most of whom had gone to Texas looking for a fresh start."--Jacket.

0803286201 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780803286207 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 Travel Texas.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Frontier and pioneer life Texas.
Slavery Texas History 19th century.
Packhorse camping Texas.
Camping Texas.
Tourisme équestre Texas.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Manners and customs.
Packhorse camping.
Slavery.
Travel.
Texas Description and travel.
Texas Social life and customs 19th century.
Texas Social life and customs.
Texas Descriptions et voyages.
Texas Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
Texas.

History.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 236370
Cote: BIB 166206
Statut: Disponible