A Nineteenth-Century Survey of the Western Frontier
by
Frederick Law Olmsted
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
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,...