ILLUSTRATIONS

Slaves At Work From Seaboard Slave States Frontispiece
Charles Loring Brace in 1856 From Life of Brace 51
George W. Curtis From Olmsted’s personal collection of photographs, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Mass. 54
Edward Everett Hale Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass. 65
Friedrich Kapp From Olmsted’s personal collection of photographs, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Mass. 68
Bertha Olmsted From Olmsted’s personal collection of photographs, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Mass. 70
John Olmsted (Oil painting by Jared Flagg) Courtesy of Terry Niles Smith 72
Mary Bull Olmsted (Oil painting by Jared Flagg) Courtesy of Terry Niles Smith 73
John Hull Olmsted From Olmsted’s personal collection of photographs, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Mass. 74
View Of Charles Benedict Calvert’s Riversdale From Anthony St. John Baker, Memoirs d’un Voyageur Qui se Repose (London, 1850) Courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. 87
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The New Stable at Riversdale “Buildings for Cattle &c. at Riversdale belonging to Chas. B. Calvert, Esq. 1853” (Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, Md.) Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Md. 88
The Journey Through the Seaboard Slave States, 1852–1853 112
Woman With Bull Cart On Road Outside Savannah From Seaboard Slave States 157
Eliza Caroline Clay’s Richmond-on-Ogeechee Courtesy of Thomas C. Clay 160
Richard J. Arnold Courtesy of Katherine Talbot 161
Louisa Gindrat Arnold Courtesy of Katherine Talbot 162
First Stage of the Journey through Texas and the Back Country, 1853–1854 272
Olmsted and His Brother, John, Camping in Texas From Journey Through Texas 273
View of Sisterdale “Dr. Ernst Kapp’s Water Cure Facilities at Sisterdale, Texas” (Lithograph by G. Kraetzer, c. 1855, from drawings by Hermann Lungkwitz, 1853) Courtesy of Paula Ingenhuett, copy from University of Texas, Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, Tex. 277
Ernst Kapp’s House in Sisterdale “Dr. Ernst Kapp’s Water Cure Facilities at Sisterdale, Texas” (Lithograph by G. Kraetzer, c. 1855, from drawings by Hermann Lungkwitz, 1853) Courtesy of Paula Ingenhuett, copy from University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, Tex. 290
The Journey through Texas, 1854 296
The Military Plaza in San Antonio From U.S. Department of the Interior,. . . Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by William H. Emory, Major First Cavalry, and the United States Commissioner, 2 vols. (Washington, 1857–59) Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 298
Proposed Division of Texas into Five States303
The Journey through the Back Country, 1854 308
The Wreck of the Artic From Henry Howe, Life and Death on the Ocean: A Collection of Extraordinary Adventures... (Cincinnati, 1855) 324
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Ellen Bateman as the Newsboy in Young America (“Miss Ellen Bateman as the Newsboy in the New Drama of Young America,” color lithograph by Sarony & Company, New York City) Courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. 333
The Hotel de Ville, Paris From Paris and Its Environs, Displayed in a Series of Two Hundred Picturesque Views, From Original Drawings; Taken under the Direction of A. Pugin, Esq., the Engravings Executed under the Superintendence of Mr. C. Heath; with Topographical and Historical Descriptions, 2 vols. in 1 (London, 1831) 343
Mountain Howitzer Purchased by Olmsted for the Defense of Lawrence, Kansas, in October 1855 Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kans. 369
Edward Sheffield Bartholomew From Connecticut Quarterly 2, no. 3 (July-September 1896) 379
Title Page from T. H. Gladstone, The Englishman in Kansas; Or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare. . . With an Introduction by Fred. Law Olmsted... (New York, 1857) 406
Free-Soil Texas and Neosho 439