Download Olmsted's Texas Journey : A 19th Century Survey of the Western Frontier by Frederick Law Olmsted in MOBI, FB2, DOC
9781632206244 English 1632206242 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.
9781632206244 English 1632206242 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.