| Description |
480 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Foreword -- Schemes -- 1. "Tough as nails" -- 2. Frederick goes to school -- 3. Hartford -- 4. "I have no objection" -- 5. New York -- 6. A year before the mast -- 7. Friends -- 8. Farming -- 9. More Farming -- 10. A walking tour in the old country -- Jostling and Being Jostled -- 11. Mr. Downing's magazine -- 12. Olmsted falls in love and finishes his book -- 13. Charley Brace intervenes -- 14. Yeoman -- 15. A traveling companion -- 16. The Texas settlers -- 17. Yeoman makes a decision -- 18. "Much the best Mag. in the world" -- 19. Abroad -- Hitting Heads -- 20. A change in fortune -- 21. The Colonel meets his match -- 22. Mr. Vaux -- 23. A brilliant solution -- 24. A promotion -- 25. Frederick and Mary -- 26. Comptroller Green -- 27. King Cotton -- 28. A good big work -- 29. Yeoman's war -- 30. "Six months more pretty certainly" -- 31. A letter from Dana -- 32. Never happier -- 33. Olmsted shortens sail -- 34. A heavy sort of book -- 35. Calvert Vaux doesn't take no for an answer -- 36. Loose ends -- A Magnificent Opening -- 37. Olmsted and Vaux plan a perfect park -- 38. Metropolitan -- 39. A stopover in Buffalo -- 40. Thirty-nine thousand trees -- 41. Best-laid plans -- 42. Henry Hobson Richardson -- 43. Olmsted's dilemma -- 44. Alone -- 45. "More interesting than nature" -- 46. Olmsted in demand -- 47. "I shall be free from it on the Ist of January" -- Standing First -- 48. An arduous convalescence -- 49. Fairstead -- 50. The character of his business -- 51. The sixth park -- 52. Olmsted meets the Governor -- 53. Olmsted and Vaux, together again -- 54. "Make a small pleasure ground and gardens" -- 55. Olmsted drives hard -- 56. The fourth muse -- 57. Dear Rick -- 58. Sunset -- Olmsted's Distant Effects -- Distant Effects -- A Selected List of Olmsted Projects -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Illustration and Photograph Credits |
| Summary |
In a collaboration between writer and subject, the author of Home and City life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes - among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens, Illinois's Riverside community, Asheville's Biltmore Estate, and Louisville's park system. Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more diverse talents. Born in 1822, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He wrote books about the South and about his exploration of the Texas frontier. He managed California's largest gold mine and, during the Civil War, served as general secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission, the precursor of the Red Cross |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-460) and index |
| Subject |
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
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Landscape architects -- United States -- Biography.
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Landscape architecture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
99018094 |
| ISBN |
0684824639 |
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