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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 Leroy Scott

by Elliott Smith

by Walter M. Miller

by Zona Gale

by Jane L. Stewart

by Various Authors

by Edith Wharton

by Alice Turner Curtis

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Howard Pyle

by Helen Beecher Long

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by Anna Katharine Green

by George Cary Eggleston

by Oliver Optic

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Leona Dalrymple

by William Dean Howells

by Yates Stirling

by Jesse Lynch Williams

by Oliver Optic

by John Habberton

by Frank Belknap Long

by John Cuningham

by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

by Laura Jean Libbey

by Jack London

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Ralph Delahaye Paine

by Winston Churchill

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

by Edith Wharton

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Edith Wharton

by Upton Sinclair

by George Alfred Townsend

by Catharine Esther Beecher

by William Allen White

by James Otis

by William Dean Howells

by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Mark Twain

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Louisa May Alcott

by Henry James

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Ernest Poole

by Emma Lazarus

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Edith Wharton

by Isaac Asimov

by William R. (William Rufus) Scott

by Jack London

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Maximilian Foster

by William Dean Howells, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse, Edith Wyatt

by Sara Teasdale

by Amanda M. Douglas

by B. M. Bower

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Willa Cather

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Francis Lynde

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Bret Harte

by James Otis

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

by Randall Parrish

by George Weston

by Booth Tarkington

by Mary Hallock Foote

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Mark Twain

by Louisa May Alcott

by Leroy Scott

by Samuel Merwin

by Harry Leon Wilson

by Mabel Osgood Wright

by Mary Austin

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Stanley Waterloo

by Kirk Munroe

by Delia Salter Bacon

by Amelia E. Barr

by James Branch Cabell

by Mark Twain

by Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner

by Oliver Optic

by Various Authors

by Eleanor Gates

by Jr. John Fox