Chronicles The Life And Career Of Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted, And The Effect His Ideas Had On American Culture. Schemes. Tough As Nails -- Frederick Goes To School -- Hartford -- I Have No Objection -- New York -- A Year Before The Mast -- Friends -- Farming -- More Farming -- A Walking Tour In The Old Country -- Jostling And Being Jostled. Mr. Downing's Magazine -- Olmstead Falls I Love And Finishes His Book -- Charley Brace Intervenes -- Yeoman -- A Traveling Companion -- The Texas Settlers -- Yeoman Makes A Decision -- Much The Best Mag. In The World -- Abroad -- Hitting Heads. A Change In Fortune -- The Colonel Meets His Match -- Mr. Vaux -- A Brilliant Solution -- A Promotion -- Frederick And Mary -- Comptroller Green -- King Cotton -- A Good Big Work -- Yeoman's War -- Six Months More Pretty Certainly -- A Letter From Dana -- Never Happier -- Olmstead Shortens Sail -- A Heavy Sort Of Book -- Calvert Vaux Doesn't Take No For An Answer -- Loose Ends A Magnificent Opening. Olmsted And Vaux Plan A Perfect Park -- Metropolitan -- A Stopover In Buffalo -- Thirty-nine Thousand Trees -- Best-laid Plans -- Henry Hobson Richardson -- Olmsted's Dilemma -- Alone -- More Interesting Than Nature -- Olmsted In Demand -- I Shall Be Free From It On The 1st Of January -- Standing First. An Arduous Convalescence -- Fairstead -- The Character Of His Business -- The Sixth Park -- Olmsted Meets The Governor -- Olmsted And Vaux, Together Again -- Make A Small Pleasure Ground And Gardens -- Olmsted Drives Hard -- The Fourth Muse -- Dear Rick -- Sunset -- Olmsted's Distant Effects. Distant Effects -- A Selectged List Of Olmsted Projects. Witold Rybczynski. Reprint. Originally Published: C1999. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 429-460) And Index.