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Olmsted's Texas Journey
Frederick Law Olmsted
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Description for Olmsted's Texas Journey
Paperback. Originally published: New York: Dix, Edwards, 1857. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 428.
A reporter’s account of the people, culture, and terrain of Texas in the mid-1800s.
Frederick Olmsted was a journalist when he made his journey through Texas. Tasked with covering the state of slavery during the quiet years before the Civil War, he took copious notes about the people, places, and cultures of the Texas of his day. These notes, in the form of a journal, would become his seminal work, Olmsted’s Texas Journey.
In Olmsted’s Texas Journey, the reader gets to travel back in time and witness Texas as it once was, and see how today’s Texas, with ... Read more
A reporter’s account of the people, culture, and terrain of Texas in the mid-1800s.
Frederick Olmsted was a journalist when he made his journey through Texas. Tasked with covering the state of slavery during the quiet years before the Civil War, he took copious notes about the people, places, and cultures of the Texas of his day. These notes, in the form of a journal, would become his seminal work, Olmsted’s Texas Journey.
In Olmsted’s Texas Journey, the reader gets to travel back in time and witness Texas as it once was, and see how today’s Texas, with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781632206244
SKU
V9781632206244
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Ref
99-15
About Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (18221903) was an American landscape architect, social critic, and journalist. Before his rise as one of the preeminent architects of urban parks, he worked as a reporter covering slavery throughout the Union.
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