Peter Rugg: The Missing Man by William Austin
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, one of the most famous stories in its time about the most travelled man in the original American colonies that became au urban legend without ever existing.
http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/74/59.pdf
Oates, Joyce Carol (ed.) "The Oxford Book of American Short Stories." Oxford University Press. New York, 2013.
