TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horwitz,Tony
TI  - Spying on the South :  an Odyssey Across the American Divide
SN  - 9781101980286
AV  - F213 .H768 2019
U1  - 917.504 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Olmsted, Frederick Law,
KW  - Horwitz, Tony,
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted called the Cotton Kingdom"--
ER  -