Washington Irving: Three Western Narratives: A Tour on the Prairies/Astoria/The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (Library of America) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Washington Irving: Three Western Narratives: A Tour on the Prairies/Astoria/The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (Library of America) Book

America?s first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and inhabitants with an eye to romantic sublimity and celebrating the frontiersman?s "secret of personal freedom," Irving published his account of that journey in 1835 as A Tour on the Prairies, an early and distinctly American depiction of the young nation?s borderland and its native inhabitants. Irving followed up this eyewitness account with two works that chart the dramatic and tumultuous history of the early read more...
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