Edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Introduction by Lawrence N. Powell

The Cotton Kingdom

Literature & Fiction

Olmsted, Frederick Law

United States

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Forty years of landscape architecture: Central Park [by] Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr

Arts & Photography

Architecture

MIT Press]

Central Park, designed in collaboration with Calvert Vaux, was chosen as the subject of Volume Two, both because it was Mr. Olmsted's first great work of landscape architecture and because it offered the most connected sequence of papers dealing with park design and management.

Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park

Mit Pr

Early in the year 1854 Frederick Law Olmsted, a young New England journalist, crossed the Louisiana border and set off on horseback into the teeth of the Texas winter. In A Journey through Texas he recounts his travels along the Old San Antonio Road through East Texas' piney woods, the dry prairies further west, the chaparral of South Texas, the coastal prairies, and the rich bottomlands around Houston and Galveston. Olmsted does not romanticize the discomforts of his trip—the monotonous food, crude housing, wet and dry northers, rough companions—yet his book reflects a sense of limitless possibility for this new and open country. The cultured Easterner remembers in relentless detail the squalor and brutality met with in parts of East Texas, but he writes fondly of the civility and cleanliness of the German settlements around New Braunfels. In his introductory "A Letter to a Southern Friend," omitted in earlier reprints, Olmsted sets forth his views opposing the extension of slavery into the West and promoting free-soil agriculture for frontier states. The remarkably versatile Olmsted is best known as the founder of landscape architecture in America and for works including Central Park and Stanford University. In his Foreword, Larry McMurtry calls A Journey through Texas an "intelligent, lively, readable book, packed with keen observation and lightened by a delicate strain of humor."

A Journey through Texas; or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier

History

Americas

University of Texas Press

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Chicago's South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal's Mount Royal Park, the park systems of Boston and Buffalo, and many others. But Olmsted also designed parkways and neighborhoods, reshaping cities around their parks. He thus reinvented the American urban landscape as a democratic outdoor setting that encouraged a new kind of participation in city life. Olmsted was one of the most gifted of American writers of his generation: prior to designing Central Park, he had written five important books, including The Cotton Kingdom (an account of his travels in the slave states), and his writings on American landscapes are unfailingly lively, eloquent, and passionate. Civilizing American Cities collects Olmsted's plans for New York, San Francisco, Buffalo, Montreal, Chicago, and Boston; his suburban plans for Berkeley, California and Riverside, Illinois; and a generous helping of his writings on urban landscape in general. These selections, expertly edited and introduced, are not only enjoyable but essential reading for anyone interested in the history—and the future—of America's cities.

Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Grand Central Publishing

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Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England; Volume 2

World

Franklin Classics

A Journey Through Texas; Or, a Saddle-Trip On the Southwestern Frontier. With a Statistical Appendix

The Cotton Kingdom: Volume 1

The Park for Detroit: Being a Preliminary Consideration of Certain Prime Conditions of Economy for the Belle Isle Scheme

The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations ..; Volume 1

Travel

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