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From the Civil War & western research/reference library of Jerry Crandall
Journey Through Texas
by Frederick Law Olmsted
Condition; good, no dust jacket over hard cover,
Published by Burt Franklin, 1969, originally published in 1860
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.
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