| Description |
480 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Schemes -- "Tough as nails" -- Frederick goes to school -- Hartford -- "I have no objection" -- New York -- A year before the mast -- Friends -- Farming -- More farming -- A walking tour in the old country -- Jostling and Being Jostled -- Mr. Downing's magazine -- Olmsted falls in love and finishes his book -- Charley Brace intervenes -- Yeoman -- A traveling companion -- The Texas settlers -- Yeoman makes a decision -- "Much the best Mag. in the world" -- Abroad -- Hitting Heads -- A change in fortune -- The Colonel meets his match -- Mr. Vaux -- A brilliant solution -- A promotion -- Frederick and Mary -- Comptroller Green -- King Cotton -- A good big work -- Yeoman's war -- "Six months more pretty certainly" -- A letter from Dana -- Never happier -- Olmsted shortens sail -- A heavy sort of book -- Calvert Vaux doesn't take no for an answer -- Loose ends -- A Magnificent Opening -- Olmsted and Vaux plan a perfect park -- Metropolitan -- A stopover in Buffalo -- Thirty-nine thousand trees -- Best-laid plans -- Henry Hobson Richardson -- Olmsted's dilemma -- Alone -- "More interesting than nature" -- Olmsted in demand -- "I shall be free from it on the 1st of January" -- Standing First -- An arduous convalescence -- Fairstead -- The character of his business -- The sixth park -- Olmsted meets the Governor -- Olmsted and Vaux, together again -- "Make a small pleasure ground and gardens" -- Olmsted drives hard -- The fourth muse -- Dear Rick -- Sunset -- Olmsted's Distant Effects -- Distant Effects. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-460) and index. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.5 28.0 78254. |
| Note |
CARL0001504748 |
| 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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United States -- Civilization.
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| ISBN |
0684824639 |
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