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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC00267.073
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to the 1860s
Title	A journey in the back country
Date	1860
Author	Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903)
Document Type	Book
Content Description	Volume III of Our Slave States. Previous documentation indicates this is a first edition. Published by Mason Brothers. Introduction begins: "This is the third volume of a work, the first of which was a narrative of a journey in the sea-board districts of the older slave States; the second, of a rapid tour west of the Alleghanies, and of a winter spent in Texas. This volume concludes and somewhat focalizes the observations of those, its narrative being, in part, of the hill-country people, and mainly of those who are engaged in, or are most directly affected by, the great business of the South- the production of cotton." Last chapter is titled "The Danger of the South." Olmsted, designer of New York City's Central Park, has long been acknowledged as the founder of American landscape architecture.
Subjects	Literature and Language Arts Agriculture and Animal Husbandry African American History Slavery Travel Geography and Natural History
People	Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903)
Place written	New York, New York
Theme	Arts & Literature; African Americans; Agriculture; Slavery & Abolition
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information	Our Slave States also included the books A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy (1856), and A Journey Through Texas; or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier (1857), both by Olmsted.
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945

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