Writers of Knickerbocker New York

_Of this book there have been printed three hundred copies from type and original wood blocks on French hand-made paper, and three copies on Roman parchment, by order of the Com...

After a stormy passage of sixty-four days, not lacking in serious perils, Irving landed in New York in the wake of a heavy snowstorm in February, 1806, in high spirits and ready...

In 1816 Paulding traveled in Virginia and wrote one of the earliest of those local studies which record the interstate commerce of observation and criticism for which this count...

A vigorous, burly man, often met on the streets in the second decade, was on his way to become one of the most widely known Americans, whose name is now familiar throughout Euro...