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M. K. Kellogg's Texas Journal, 1872 by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg (editor); Llerena Friend (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Miner Kilbourne Kellogg’s notes about his experiences with “the most completely and comfortably fitted-out expedition which ever went to Texas” is an account of the beauty, the wildness, and the dangers and inconveniences of 1872 Texas. Editor Llerena Friend provides a setting for the journal by tracing the search for mineral wealth in post–Civil War Texas; by describing the aims of the Eastern-born Texas Copper and Land Association, whose expedition the diarist accompanied; and by narrating the life of Miner K. Kellogg—artist, world traveler, writer. Friend’s annotation of the journal fills in details about the names, places, and events that Kellogg mentions. As the expedition travels across North Texas toward Double Mountain, Kellogg reveals himself not only as a man of artistic vision but also as a chronic complainer, an accomplished observer of human nature and individual personality, and a skillful interpreter of problems that beset the people in the uncivilized regions of Texas. A cultured gentleman who had traveled the world and had sat in the company of presidents and princes, this non-Texan was disdainful of the “texans” of the wilderness, for whom “Cards & vulgar slang &

Who reads M. K. Kellogg's Texas Journal, 1872?

Author

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg (editor); Llerena Friend (editor)

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292736634

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Humanities