Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishing, 1972. dj. Facsimile reissue of a book originally published in 1860. The third of Olmsted's books on his tours of the South in the years before the Civil War - this time focusing on May to August 1852, in the hill country of Northern Mississippi, western Virginia and Tennessee - a study of the cotton industry and of slavery. 492 pages, including index.