His 1809 work "A History of New York" relates the Dutch occupation of Manhattan
... by 
Irving in his 1809 Knickerbocker's History of New York from The Beginning of the
... [DOC] [TLE] Cooper and New York's Dutch Heritage [PAR] We are most familiar with his broad them atic use of the natural landscape of the 
area: ... European peasant and burgher architecture only indirectly related to 
Yankee ... With the publication of Irving's Knickerbocker history in 1809, Dutch 
images .... in the works that intervened between Notions and Manhattan, Cooper 
used... [DOC] [TLE] Washington Irving | The New York History Blog [PAR] Washington Irving and the (Re)Creation of Dutch NY ...