01681cam a2200289 i 4500 506171493 TxAuBib 20210101120000.0 181127s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018056912 9781101980286 hardcover 1101980281 hardcover NcU/DLC eng rda NcU DLC TxAuBib rda Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019,. Spying on the South : an odyssey across the American divide / Tony Horwitz. New York : Penguin Press, 2019. 476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-462) and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 20210101. Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903 Travel Southern States. Horwitz, Tony 1958- Travel Southern States. Southern States Description and travel.