A Clearing in the Distance

This fascinating portrait of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted transcends biography and makes American history an intellectual adventure story. of photos.

CONTENTS
Foreword
Schemes
1. "Tough as nails"
2. Frederick goes to school
3. Hartford
4. "I have no objection"
5. New York
6. A year before the mast
7. Friends
8. Farming
9. More Farming
10. A walking tour in the old country
Jostling and Being Jostled
11. Mr. Downing's magazine
12. Olmsted falls in love and finishes his book
13. Charley Brace intervenes
14. Yeoman
15. A traveling companion
16. The Texas settlers
17. Yeoman makes a decision
18. "Much the best Mag. in the world"
19. Abroad
Hitting Heads
20. A change in fortune
21. The Colonel meets his match
22. Mr. Vaux
23. A brilliant solution
24. A promotion
25. Frederick and Mary
26. Comptroller Green
27. King Cotton
28. A good big work
29. Yeoman's war
30. "Six months more pretty certainly"
31. A letter from Dana
32. Never happier
33. Olmsted shortens sail
34. A heavy sort of book
35. Calvert Vaux doesn't take no for an answer
36. Loose ends
A Magnificent Opening
37. Olmsted and Vaux plan a perfect park
38. Metropolitan
39. A stopover in Buffalo
40. Thirty-nine thousand trees
41. Best-laid plans
42. Henry Hobson Richardson
43. Olmsted's dilemma
44. Alone
45. "More interesting than nature"
46. Olmsted in demand
47. "I shall be free from it on the Ist of January"
Standing First
48. An arduous convalescence
49. Fairstead
50. The character of his business
51. The sixth park
52. Olmsted meets the Governor
53. Olmsted and Vaux, together again
54. "Make a small pleasure ground and gardens"
55. Olmsted drives hard
56. The fourth muse
57. Dear Rick
58. Sunset
Olmsted's Distant Effects
Distant Effects
A Selected List of Olmsted Projects
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Illustration and Photograph Credits