Wanderings in the Southwest in 1855: Volume 23

by J.D.B. Stillman

Virtually unknown today, Stillman's observations have eluded even historians who have sought nineteenth-century travel accounts of Texas and the South. Stillman was a full-fledged member of a generation that had fallen completely in love with America's natural beauty, represented in the works of Emerson and Thoreau. His letters reflect that sensitivity and gift for description.

Nowhere have I seen nature display so much of the chastened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870621920
• ISBN13: 9780870621925
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"