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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 Mary Antin

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by William MacLeod Raine

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Fredric Brown

by Elijah Kellogg

by Owen Wister

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Leona Dalrymple

by Winston Churchill

by William Dean Howells

by Laura Lee Hope

by Marietta Holley

by Mary Jane Holmes

by William Campbell Gault

by Madeline Leslie

by Albert Payson Terhune

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Helen M. (Helen Maria) Winslow

by Arthur Stringer

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson

by Mark Twain

by Henry Kitchell Webster

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

by Owen Johnson

by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Mark Twain

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Frank Norris

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Archibald Henderson

by Rupert Hughes

by Oliver Optic

by Christopher Morley

by William Cullen Bryant

by James V. McConnell

by John McElroy

by Fanny Fern

by Henry Van Dyke

by Emerson Hough

by Mark Twain

by Edgar Lee Masters

by William Dean Howells

by Martha Finley

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Mark Twain

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Elizabeth Robins

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by William Dean Howells

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Harold Frederic

by B. M. Bower

by B. M. Bower

by Carolyn Wells

by George Alfred Townsend

by George Bird Grinnell

by Temple Bailey

by Frank V. Webster

by Edward Marshall, Charles Turner Dazey

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Amanda M. Douglas

by George Ade

by Frances Boyd Calhoun

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by James Otis

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Pansy

by Edith Wharton

by Max Brand

by Jr. Horatio Alger, Edward Stratemeyer

by Kate Trimble Sharber

by Donald Ferguson

by Francis Lynde

by William MacLeod Raine

by Ethel Hueston

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Charles Dudley Warner

by John S. (John Stowell) Adams

by Clarence Darrow

by Lester Chadwick

by Sarah Johnson Cocke

by Edison Marshall

by Booth Tarkington

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Richard Harding Davis

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by Mark Twain

by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by Leroy Scott