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Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Journey Through Texas written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632207389
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Olmsted's Texas Journey written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 its variety of peoples and traditions, still shares a deep connection to the richness of its past. But his great Texas journey was in fact so much more. As he made his way to that great state, he took copious and wonderful notes of all the others he passed through. From Maryland to California, and Ohio to Louisiana, Olmsted’s great history chronicles every detail that he observed. This truly is a classic piece of American literature.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Journey Through Texas written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 1969-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780809439706
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Olmsted's Texas Journey written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101980303
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Spying on the South written by Tony Horwitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman," the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cotton Kingdom written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 : 9781418104368
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Journey Through Texas; Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier; with a Statistical Appendix. by Frederick Law Olmsted written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin Martin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306818817
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Genius of Place written by Justin Martin and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive, first full-scale biography of Olmsted--famed designer of New York's Central Park--reveals him also as a brilliant political and social reformer.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781726725415
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (254 download)
Download or read book A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Journey Through Texas written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the economy and it's impact of slavery on the coast land slave states pre-Civil War.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016360821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4 written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505793031
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A Journey Through Texas, Or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Law Olmsted 1822 – 1903) was an American landscape architect and journalist who was commissioned by the New York Times to travel through the American South and provide an in-depth report on his experiences. A Journey Through Texas was published in 1857 and remains a classic of antebellum state history.
Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525435905
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book God Save Texas written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.
Author : Roger D. Hodge
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307961419
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Texas Blood written by Roger D. Hodge and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Frederick Law Olmsted written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be observed. The analysis which concerns the realistic works of Matute contains three chapters: firstly, approaches to the child antihero, which includes subtopics such as the Cain theme, the infantile cruelty, and the death in the childhood; secondly, an analysis of the aesthetic techniques that contribute to the subjective descriptions of the identity of child; thirdly, an observation of the relationship between the Matutian Child and the external world. In the part entitled "Childhood in the fantastic works of Ana Maria Matute", we have used as corpus fantastic works of the second period of Ana María Matute and showed how the world of children is adapted to a new fantastic and medieval environment. The analysis also includes three sections: a discussion of the continuation/renewal of the topic mentioned above; the analysis of some secondary fantastic characters related to the theme of childhood; finally, a systematic study of the symbolic objects in the works of Ana María Matute.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781548376376
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (763 download)
Download or read book A Journey Through Texas, Or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the 50 best books of all time on the American West."-True West "Olmstead's appeal was attributable to his readable and unvarnished reportage of places and events to which few Easterners had direct access. . . . [It] provides a credible glimpse of life in Texas in the mid-1850s, as well as insights into the contemporary debate over the institution of slavery. . . . The late A.C. Green found Olmstead's account sufficiently engaging to include it in his original 50 Best Books on Texas in 1982, and it remains a basic source for historians of the region and the period."-Southwest Book Views Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 - 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. Olmsted had a significant career in journalism. Interested in the slave economy, he was commissioned by the New York Daily Times (now The New York Times) to embark on an extensive research journey through the American South and Texas from 1852 to 1857. His dispatches to the Times were collected into three volumes (A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856),A Journey Through Texas (1857), A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4 (1860)) which remain vivid first-person social documents of the pre-war South. A Journey Through Texas remains a classic of antebellum state history.
