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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.
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The Trumpeter Swan
by Temple Bailey
The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge
by Margaret Vandercook
Dick Hamilton's Fortune; Or, The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son
by Howard Roger Garis
The Thing Beyond Reason
by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
A Lost Lady
by Willa Cather
Deserted 1898
by Edward Bellamy
Potts's Painless Cure 1898
by Edward Bellamy
Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen
by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
The Kentucky Ranger
by Edward T. Curnick
The Fifth Wheel: A Novel
by Olive Higgins Prouty
Anti-Slavery Poems 1. Part 1 From Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Brass Bowl
by Louis Joseph Vance
On the Trail of Pontiac; Or, The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio
by Edward Stratemeyer
A Transient Guest, and Other Episodes
by Edgar Saltus
Bib Ballads
by Ring Lardner
Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila
by Charles King
Under Orders: The story of a young reporter
by Kirk Munroe
Nick Carter Stories No. 155, August 28, 1915: The Gordon Elopement; or, Nick Carter's Three of a Kind.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Bertram Lebhar
Colonel Crockett, the Texan trailer
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Timid Hare: The Little Captive
by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Sketches New and Old, Part 4.
by Mark Twain
The phantom hunter; or, love after death
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
A Town Is Drowning
by Frederik Pohl, C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth
Northern Lights, Volume 1.
by Gilbert Parker
Frank Merriwell's Setback; Or, True Pluck Welcomes Defeat
by Burt L. Standish
The Big Blue Soldier
by Grace Livingston Hill
The Spark (The 'Sixties)
by Edith Wharton
Silas X. Floyd's Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young Entertaining, Uplifting, Interesting
by Silas Xavier Floyd
Six Feet Four
by Jackson Gregory
American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Part 21. Second Series
by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith
Hiking Westward Being the Story of Two Boys Whose Ambition Led Them to Face Privations and Hardships in Their Quest of a Home in the Great West
by Roger William Conant
The Crisis — Volume 04
by Winston Churchill
A Message From Our Sponsor
by Henry Slesar
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 3
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ihmiskunnan edustaja
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel
by Thomas William Lawson
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
by Sinclair Lewis
Children of the Tenements
by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
For the Liberty of Texas
by Edward Stratemeyer
The Four Million
by O. Henry
Washington Irving
by Henry Walcott Boynton
Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike
by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
The Tunnel Under the World
by Frederik Pohl
Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4
by William H. (William Harris) Elson, Christine M. Keck
Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward (HTML edition)
by Artemus Ward
Smoke Bellew
by Jack London
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 08 Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams
by Ambrose Bierce
An International Episode
by Henry James
The Sea Fairies
by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Essays Before a Sonata
by Charles Ives
To the Last Man
by Zane Grey
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
by Charles Brockden Brown
Lulu's Library, Volume 3 (of 3)
by Louisa May Alcott
Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
by Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs, Lela Horn Richards
That Sweet Little Old Lady
by Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
The Death Shot: A Story Retold
by Mayne Reid
The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself
by John Galt
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails
by Victor Appleton
The Fruit of the Tree
by Edith Wharton
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tales of the Argonauts
by Bret Harte
From a Bench in Our Square
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Lo, Michael!
by Grace Livingston Hill
Light-Fingered Gentry
by David Graham Phillips
The Depot Master
by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Buell Hampton
by Willis George Emerson
Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West
by William MacLeod Raine
The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life
by Clara Louise Burnham
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
by Julia Ward Howe
Henry Is Twenty: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rd
by Samuel Merwin
The Unspeakable Perk
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Her Prairie Knight
by B. M. Bower
The Puddleford Papers; Or, Humors of the West
by Henry Hiram Riley
The Second Deluge
by Garrett Putman Serviss
The Maid of Maiden Lane
by Amelia E. Barr
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
by Bret Harte
An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country
by Ben Goodkind
A Cynic Looks at Life
by Ambrose Bierce
Gloria and Treeless Street
by Annie Hamilton Donnell
My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Booming of Acre Hill, and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life
by John Kendrick Bangs
Gentle Julia
by Booth Tarkington
The Young Pitcher
by Zane Grey
Betty Lee, Freshman
by Harriet Pyne Grove
Grandmother Elsie
by Martha Finley
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 03
by Mark Twain
O. Henry Encore
by O. Henry
Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier
by Frank Preston Stearns
The Iron Trail
by Rex Beach
Riley Love-Lyrics
by James Whitcomb Riley
Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
by Albert Payson Terhune
Cudjo's Cave
by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge