Primary Works

The Cotton Kingdom; a traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave States. Based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations by the same author. Edited, with an introd., by Arthur M. Schlesinger. NY: Knopf, 1953. F213 .O53

The slave States. NY: Capricorn Books, 1959. F213 .O54

Civilizing American cities; a selection of Frederick Law Olmsted's writings on city landscapes. Edited by S. B. Sutton. Cambridge, Mass., MIT P 1971. HT167 .O44

The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Charles C. McLaughlin, editor, Charles E. Beveridge, associate editor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University P, 1977- . SB470 .O5 A2 Library Has: v.1-v.6

The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Supplementary series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University P, 1997-. SB470 .O5 A2 Library Has: v.1

Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865. introduction by Victoria P. Ranney; illustrated by Wayne Thiebaud. Yosemite National Park, Calif.: Yosemite Association, 1993. F868 .Y6 O46

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Anderson, Douglas A. "The Explanation of the West: Exploration, Expectation and Uncertainty from Lewis and Clark to Frederick Law Olmsted." DAI 41 (1980): 1590A.

Fabos, Julius G., V. Michael Weinmayr, and Gordon T. Milde. Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.; founder of landscape architecture in America. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1968. SB470 O5 F32

Fein, Albert. Frederick Law Olmsted and the American environmental tradition. NY: G. Braziller 1972. NA737 O4 F4

Floyd, Margaret H. "H. H. Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the House for Robert Treat Paine." Winterthur Portfolio 18.4 (Wint 1983): 227-48.

Kelly, Bruce, Gail T. Guillet, and Mary E. W. Hern. Art of the Olmsted landscape. NY: NY City Landmarks Preservation Commission: Arts Publisher, 1981. SB470 .O5 K44

Roper, Laura W. FLO: A biography of Frederick Law Olmsted. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1973. SB470 O5 R66

Rybczynski, Witold. A clearing in the distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century. NY: Scribner, 1999. SB470 .O5 R93

Scheper, George L. "The Reformist Vision of Frederick Law Olmsted and the Poetics of Park Design." New England Quarterly 62.3 (Sep 1989): 369-402.

Stevenson, Elizabeth. Park maker: a life of Frederick Law Olmsted. NY: Macmillan, 1977. SB470 O5 S73

White, Dana F., Victor A. Kramer, and Albert Fein. eds. Olmsted South: Old South Critic/New South Planner. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1979.

Cothran, Kay L. "Olmsted's Contributions to Folklife Research." 59-66.

Crimmins, Timothy J. "Frederick Law Olmsted and Jonathan Baxter Harrison: Two Generations of Social Critics of the American South." 137-51.

Detweiler, Robert. "Transcending Journalism: Olmsted's Style in The Cotton Kingdom." 67-80.

Douglas, William L. "The Landscape Observed: Olmsted's View of the Antebellum South." 81-89.

Kramer, Victor A. "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Imagination and Frederick Law Olmsted's Travels: The Literary Presentation of Fact." 109-20.

Kramer, Victor A. "Olmsted as Observer." 3-9.

Kramer, Victor A., and others. "Free Soil Advocacy and the New England Emigrant Aid Society: Five 1857 Letters by Olmsted." 121-35.

Spurlock-Evans, Karla J. "'Old' Sources for a 'New' History: Frederick Law Olmsted's Journeys in the Slave South." 51-57.

White, Dana F. "About Olmsted: A Bibliographical Essay." 247-52.

- - -. "A Connecticut Yankee in Cotton's Kingdom." 11-49.

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