Episodes Located: SABINE, Texas in the 1850's

  1. Frederick Law Olmsted Journeys Through Texas
    date 1853 to 1854map SABINE, Texastags African-Americans, Slavery

    As the Northern journalist and famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted began his journal through Texas, he wrote, “In entering new precincts, the mind instinctively looks for salient incidents to fix its whereabouts and reduce of define its vague anticipations.' Olmsted's research journey through Texas commissioned by the New York Daily Times (now the New York Times) culminated in...