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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 Charles Amory Beach

by Carolyn Wells

by Courtney Ryley Cooper

by Mark Twain

by Various Authors

by Marietta Holley

by Edward Payson Roe

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by Martha Finley

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

by Mark Twain

by Ambrose Bierce

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by Mark Twain

by Wallace Irwin

by Upton Sinclair

by Marietta Holley

by Margaret Sidney

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Bret Harte

by Frank R. Stockton

by Kate Chopin

by Anna Katharine Green

by Owen Wister

by Anna Katharine Green

by Hamlin Garland

by Margaret Culkin Banning

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Temple Bailey

by Edith Wharton

by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Irving Bacheller

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Winston Churchill

by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Edwin Balmer

by Frank Norris

by Arthur Cheney Train

by Mark Twain

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Andre Norton

by Zona Gale

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Theodore Dreiser

by Philip K. Dick

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

by Mark Twain

by Booth Tarkington

by Eliza Leslie

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Annie Fields

by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent

by James Weldon Johnson

by Charles Dudley Warner

by John Dos Passos

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by B. M. Bower

by Victor Appleton

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

by Jack London

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by Margaret Fuller

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by B. M. Bower

by John Esten Cooke

by Susan Coolidge

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Susan Glaspell

by Gouverneur Morris

by Harry Steele Morrison

by Robert Grant

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Cal Stewart

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Henry James

by Susan Warner

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Dane Coolidge

by Opie Percival Read

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Abraham Cahan

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

by George Washington Cable

by John Greenleaf Whittier