Irving, John Treat

Irving, John Treat( 1812–1906),
nephew of Washington Irving, whose urbane interest in the frontier he reflects in his Indian Sketches (1835) and in The Hawk Chief: A Tale of the Indian Country (1837), also titled The Hunters of the Prairie. The Van Gelder Papers (1887) are Dutch sketches under similar influence. As John Quod he wrote The Quod Correspondence (1842), also titled The Attorney, a novel about legal affairs.