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Step into a landscape as vast and restless as the nation itself, where riverboys and runaways, dreamers and dissenters, pioneers and phantoms all chase freedom in their own unforgettable ways. From the wild pull of frontier woods to the hush of haunted villages, from Civil War battlefields to strange kingdoms just beyond the ordinary, this bookshelf captures the bold, questioning, fiercely imaginative spirit of American literature. These are stories that built myths, challenged consciences, and still echo like a voice carried on the wind.

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Upton Sinclair

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Jack London

by Meredith Nicholson

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Jack London

by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Frank R. Stockton

by Grace Denio Litchfield

by Josephine Chase

by James Oliver Curwood

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Mark Twain

by Leroy Scott

by Bret Harte

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Edgar Lee Masters

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Anna Chapin Ray

by Edward Payson Roe

by Albert Payson Terhune

by Oliver Optic

by William Dean Howells

by Oliver Optic

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Alice Turner Curtis

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Henry Kitchell Webster

by Jack London

by Jr. John Fox

by Mark Twain

by Edith K. (Edith Kellogg) Dunton

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Bret Harte

by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Marion Ames Taggart

by S. P. (Sterner St. Paul) Meek

by Henry M. Avery

by Thomas Nelson Page

by George Ade

by Owen Johnson

by Harold MacGrath

by Marietta Holley

by Henry James

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Anna Chapin Ray

by Albert Payson Terhune

by Edgar Lee Masters

by Paul G. (Paul Greene) Tomlinson

by Edward Stratemeyer

by David Graham Phillips
by Ray Cummings

by Emerson Hough

by Henry Adams

by Mark Twain

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Constance Fenimore Woolson, H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner, John William De Forest, Mary Hallock Foote, Nathaniel Parker Willis

by Charles King

by Ernest Hemingway

by Louisa May Alcott

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Louisa May Alcott

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Jack London

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Bret Harte

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Herman Melville

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by John Bell Bouton

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

by Stewart Edward White

by Mark Twain

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by William Dean Howells

by Louisa May Alcott

by B. M. Bower

by Randall Garrett

by Robert Neilson Stephens