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America’s first internationally acclaimed author, WashingtonIrving, was also one of the first to write about its thenfar-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famousauthor of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America andundertook an extensive three-month journey through present-dayMissouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery andinhabitants with an eye to romantic sublimity and celebrating thefrontiersman’s "secret of personal freedom," Irving published hisaccount of that journey in 1835 as A Tour on the Prairies,an early and distinctly American depiction of the young nation’sborderland and its native inhabitants.