A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
In A Journey through Texas, Frederick Law Olmsted records a saddle-trip across the Southwestern frontier. Combining travel narrative with historical observation, this account offers readers a literary view of Texas and the experience of traversing its landscape during an earlier era.
About This Book
A Journey through Texas presents Frederick Law Olmsted’s account of traveling across Texas on horseback.
Framed as a saddle-trip through the Southwestern frontier, the book belongs to the tradition of nineteenth-century travel writing.
Its focus on journey and place makes it a useful historical and literary record of Texas as encountered by the author.
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