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Tables of Contents for A Clearing in the Distance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
13
19
Schemes
``Tough as nails''
19
4
Frederick goes to school
23
5
Hartford
28
8
``I have no objection''
36
6
New York
42
6
A year before the mast
48
8
Friends
56
7
Farming
63
11
More farming
74
7
A walking tour in the old country
81
10
Jostling and Being Jostled
Mr. Downing's magazine
91
5
Olmsted falls in love and finishes his book
96
7
Charley Brace intervenes
103
6
Yeoman
109
13
A traveling companion
122
6
The Texas settlers
128
4
Yeoman makes a decision
132
4
``Much the best Mag. in the world''
136
6
Abroad
142
13
Hitting Heads
A change in fortune
155
3
The Colonel meets his match
158
3
Mr. Vaux
161
4
A brilliant solution
165
6
A promotion
171
7
Frederick and Mary
178
5
Comptroller Green
183
7
King Cotton
190
9
A good big work
199
9
Yeoman's war
208
6
``Six months more pretty certainly''
214
8
A letter from Dana
222
5
Never happier
227
13
Olmsted shortens sail
240
10
A heavy sort of book
250
6
Calvert Vaux doesn't take no for an answer
256
6
Loose ends
262
7
A Magnificent Opening
Olmsted and Vaux plan a perfect park
269
9
Metropolitan
278
7
A stopover in Buffalo
285
5
Thirty--nine thousand trees
290
6
Best--laid plans
296
7
Henry Hobson Richardson
303
5
Olmsted's dilemma
308
6
Alone
314
6
``More interesting than nature''
320
6
Olmsted in demand
326
6
``I shall be free from it on the 1st of January''
332
9
Standing First
An arduous convalescence
341
6
Fairstead
347
8
The character of his business
355
5
The sixth park
360
7
Olmsted meets the Governor
367
6
Olmsted and Vaux, together again
373
6
``Make a small pleasure ground and gardens''
379
6
Olmsted drives hard
385
8
The fourth muse
393
7
Dear Rick
400
6
Sunset
406
21
Olmsted's Distant Effects
Distant Effects
417
6
A Selected List of Olmsted Projects
423
4
Acknowledgments
427
2
Notes
429
32
Index
461
19
Illustration and Photograph Credits
480