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A Journey In The Back Country: Frederick Law Olmsted

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Frederick Law Olmsted was among the first to look at landscape architecture as a business and development recreational parks across the country in fact, with Calvert Vaux he practically made that an occupation. There is no definitive study of Olmsted's work. To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a requirement for urban life. Olmsted traveled regularly and often published his diaries and discussions. He wrote Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, A Journey through Texas, and A Journey in the Back Country. It’s unquestioned that his medium was massive and on a pedestal by itself. Olmsted did a variety of jobs. He was a clerk, a sailor in the China trade, and a farmer, as well as countless
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