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Author Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ernst von, 1846-1909, author

Title From New York to San Francisco : travel sketches from the year 1869 / Ernst Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ; translated by Barbara H. Thiem ; edited by Gertrud Graubart Champe ; German edition by Karin Burger and Sebastian Panwitz
Edition 1st edition
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]

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Contents Cover; FORM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Translator's Note; Introduction; The Letters; Notes; List of Names
Summary Welcome to an America you've never seen. Where anyone can drop by the White House and visit the President between 10 a.m. and noon; where cowcatchers are bloodied daily on train tracks between New York and Boston; where spent bullets are strewn across Civil War battlefields, and Indians still roam Yosemite Valley; where pigs rut in the sand-and-clay streets of Washington, DC., and the weather-bleached skeletons of oxen and horses line the old mail roads across the West. For three hot summer months in 1869, Ernst Mendelssohn-Barthody, the nephew of famed composer Felix Mendelssohn, traveled by train across the United States accompanied by his older cousin. His letters back home to Prussia offer fascinating glimpses of a young, rapidly growing America. Unceasingly annoyed at the Americans' tendency to spit all the time, the Prussian aristocrats seemingly visited everyone and everywhere: meeting President Grant and Brigham Young; touring Niagara Falls, Mammoth Cave, the Redwoods, and Yosemite; taking in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Omaha, San Francisco, and the still war-ravaged city of Richmond; and crossing the continent by rail just two months after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads had been joined at Promontory, Utah. Full of marvelous tales and insightful observations, Ernst Mendelssohn-Barthody's letters are a revealing window to a long-ago America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English and German
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Subject Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ernst von, 1846-1909 -- Correspondence
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ernst von, 1846-1909
Railroad travel -- United States
Travelers' writings, German.
1800-1899.
TRAVEL -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Manners and customs
Railroad travel
Travel
Travelers' writings, German
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
United States
Genre/Form Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Champe, Gertrud Graubart, editor
Bürger, Karin, editor
Panwitz, Sebastian, editor
LC no. 2017025699
ISBN 9780253031228
0253031222
Other Titles Von New York nach San Francisco. English