The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle 1818 – The Backwoodsman 1820 – Salmagundi. Second Series 1822 – A Sketch of Old England by a New England Man 1823 – Koningsmarke, the Long Finne 1825 – John Bull in America, or the New Munchausen 1826 – The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham 1828 – The New Mirror for Travellers 1829 – Tales of the Good Woman, by a Doubtful Gentleman 1830 – Chronicles of the City of Gotham 1831 – The Dutchman's Fireside 1832 – Westward Ho! 1835 – Life of George Washington, in two volumes 1836 – View of Slavery in the United States 1836 – The Book of St. Nicholas 1838 – A Gift from Fairy Land 1846 – The Old Continental, or the Price of Liberty 1849 – The Puritan and his Daughter Legacy and honors The World War II Liberty Ship was named in his honor. References Further reading Aderman, Ralph M., and Wayne R. Kime. Advocate for America: The Life of James Kirke Paulding (Susquehanna University Press, 2003). Aderman, Ralph M. "James Kirke Paulding on Literature and the West." American Literature (1955) 27#1: 97–101. online Person Jr, Leland S. "James Kirke Paulding: Myth and the Middle Ground." Western American Literature 16.1 (1981): 39–54. online Watkins, Floyd C. "James Kirke Paulding and the South." American Quarterly 5.3 (1953): 219–230. online External links "The Knickerbocker's Rescue Santa Claus" – an excerpt from Kirke Paulding's "The Book of Saint Nicholas" (1836) 1778 births 1860 deaths Novelists from New York (state) United States Secretaries of the Navy Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery Van Buren administration cabinet members 19th-century American politicians People from Hyde Park, New York American male novelists American male poets 19th-century American novelists 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights 19th-century American poets New York (state) Democratic-Republicans American male dramatists and playwrights Knickerbocker Group American essayists