Washington Irving
An American author. He was known as the “American Goldsmith”.
“Rip Van Winkle”
Rip Van Winkle drinks from dwarf’s keg with dog Wolf in Catskills and sleeps for 20 years. Like German Peter Klaus
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane loves Katrina Van Tassel but is scared away by rival Brom Bones who masquerades as headless horseman
A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker
satire of historians
Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
including “Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “The Alhambra”, “A Tour of the Prairies”, biographies of Columbus and Washington