Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- ISBN-10
- 1101980281
- ISBN-13
- 9781101980286
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 496
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Author
- Tony Horwitz
Description
"The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted called the Cotton Kingdom"--
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The Cotton Kingdom
By Frederick Law OlmstedThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.