The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" фургон, ван Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina фургон, ван Tassel, only daughter of a wealthy farmer. As кран leaves a party at the фургон, ван Tassel Главная on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who Остаться в живых his head to a cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head." кран disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related."