A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
By: Frederick Law Olmsted
3.96
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1856 Frederick Law Olmsted began a journey into the heart of Texas. His account of the Lone Sta…
Want to Read $ 0.99"The hot, soggy breath of the approaching summer was extremely depressing"-Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
"The hot, soggy breath of the approaching summer was extremely depressing"-Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
"The forest was dense, and filled with all manner of vines and rank undergrowth; the road was a vague opening, where obstructing trees had been felled, the stumps and rotten trunks remaining. Across actual quags a track of logs and saplings had been laid, but long ago, now rotten and in broken patches. As far as the eye could reach, muddy water, sent back by a south wind from the gulf, extended over the vast flat before us, to a depth of from two to six feet, as per immediate personal measurement. We spurred in. One foot: Two feet, with hard bottom: Belly-deep, hard bottom: Shoulder-deep, soft bottom: Shoulder-deep, with a sucking mire: The same, with a network of roots, in which a part of the legs are entangled, while the rest are plunging. The same, with a middle ground of loose poles; a rotten log, on which we rise dripping, to slip forward next moment, head under, haunches in air. It is evident we have reached one of the spots it would have been better to avoid."-Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
"As for Judy, the terrier, the wet country had proved for her a great relief. Her ulcerated paws had been carefully covered with moccasins, and, from the beginning of the marshy country, daily improved, until she was able to accomplish the rare canine feat of over two thousand miles of steady travel. A day's pause was now to the tired creature a priceless boon, spent in a rest that was no less than intense. Selecting the quietest nook, she would coil herself with great deliberation, and for hour after hour not so much as move a muscle; immersed in a terrier's sleep, the tip of an eyelid never unlifted. I shall not soon forget her appearance in the Neches bottom. She was very averse-being anything but a water-dog-to enter at all; but seeing herself abandoned, as we waded away, jumped, with a yelp, into the water, and swam for the nearest stump; and so followed, alternately submerged in silence and mounted, with a series of dripping howls, upon these rotten pedestals."-Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
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