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03055aam a2200373 i 4500 001 AAF510F627B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240611010142 008 210302t20202019nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019461077 020 $a 9781101980309 020 $a 1101980303 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 041 $a eng 042 $a pcc 043 $a n -us--- $a n -us--- 050 00 $a F213 $b .H768 2020 082 00 $a 917.504 $2 23 100 1 $a Horwitz, Tony, $d 1958-2019, $e Author $0 (DLC)n 88117167 245 10 $a Spying on the South : $b an odyssey across the American divide / $c Tony Horwitz. 264 1 $a [New York, N.Y.] : $b Penguin Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 486 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "Published with a new postscript by Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz in Penguin Books 2020."." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-472) and index. 505 0 $a American nomad -- Yeoman Olmsted: "An enthusiast by nature" -- Over the Alleghenies: gateway to the Rust Belt -- Ohio River: mutants making tow -- Kentucky: "A balance sheet of good against evil" -- To Tennessee and back: a thorough aristocrat -- Mississippi River: Steamboat blues -- Lower Mississippi: the absolute South -- New Orleans: the gumbo city -- Into the bayou: "Dat's how we roll" -- Central Louisiana: the unreconstructed South -- The Red River; heard of mudness -- Across the Sabine: "Gwine to Texas" -- Gulf Coast: oil and water -- Crockett, Texas: "The drift of things" in ruby-red America -- Austin and beyond: the Loon Star Republic -- San Antonio: high holy days at the Alamo -- German Texas: Olmsted in Arcadia -- The Hill Country: true to the Union -- Upper Guadalupe: and Absalom rode upon a mule -- To the Rio Grande: border disorder -- La Frontera: days of the dead -- Central Park ramble. 520 $a "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"--. $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Olmsted, Frederick Law, $d 1822-1903 $x Travel $z Southern States $0 (DLC)n 79006585 600 10 $a Horwitz, Tony, $d 1958-2019 $x Travel $z Southern States $0 (DLC)n 88117167 650 0 $a Slavery $z Southern States $x History $0 (DLC)sh2010113259 651 0 $a Southern States $x Description and travel $0 (DLC)sh 85125633 651 0 $a Southern States $x Social life and customs $0 (DLC)sh 85125633 941 $a 1 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611022844.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AAF510F627B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search