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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 Josephine Chase

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Amy Brooks

by Max Brand

by Charles King

by Oliver Optic

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

by B. M. Bower

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by James Oliver Curwood

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Meredith Nicholson

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Zona Gale

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Annie Trumbull Slosson

by George Gordon Hastings

by William Dean Howells

by Sophie May

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Ray Bradbury

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Pansy

by Sophie May

by Mary Imlay Taylor

by Irving Bacheller

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

by Amy Ella Blanchard

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Burt L. Standish

by Winston Churchill

by Jack London

by Stewart Edward White

by Ambrose Bierce

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Sinclair Lewis

by George Jean Nathan, H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by Oliver Optic

by Mark Twain

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

by Mark Twain

by John Muir

by Isaac Asimov

by Mark Twain

by O. Henry

by Edna Ferber

by Louisa May Alcott

by William Wells Brown

by Fanny Fern

by Franklin W. Dixon

by Jack London

by Stephen Vincent Benét

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Thomas Nelson Page

by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Irving Bacheller

by Ambrose Bierce

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by John Burroughs

by Charles Brockden Brown

by William Dean Howells

by Edgar Lee Masters

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Harry Leon Wilson

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Mark Twain

by Charles Goff Thomson

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Randall Parrish

by Henry James

by Christy Mathewson

by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

by Franklin W. Dixon

by Alice Duer Miller

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Stewart Edward White

by George Washington Cable

by Edward Payson Roe

by Hamlin Garland

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Hamlin Garland

by Max Brand

by Albion Winegar Tourgée

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

by Alice Duer Miller

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Matthew White

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps