Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803286207
Book Description
"Back and forth from the Sabine to the Rio Grande, through San Augustine, Nacogdoches, San Marcos, San Antonio, Neu-Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Lavaca, Indianola, Goliad, Castroville, La Grange, Houston, Harrisburg, and Beaumont, Olmsted rode and questioned and listened and reported. Texas was then already a multiethnic and multiracial state, where Americans, Germans, Mexicans, Africans, and Indians of numerous tribes mixed uneasily. Olmsted interviewed planters, scouts, innkeepers, bartenders, housewives, drovers, loafers, Indian chiefs, priests, runaway slaves, and emigrants and refugees from every part of the known world - most of whom had gone to Texas looking for a fresh start."--BOOK JACKET.