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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 Gustave Aimard

by George Sylvester Viereck

by Arthur Cheney Train

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

by Edna Ferber

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Sherwood Anderson

by Gail Hamilton

by William Dean Howells

by Jean Webster

by Anna Katharine Green

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

by Edna Ferber

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Homer Greene

by William Dean Howells

by Marietta Holley

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Rex Beach

by William Carlos Williams

by Nephi Anderson

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Walt Whitman

by Frederic Homer Balch

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Margaret Sidney

by Upton Sinclair

by Edward Payson Roe

by Don Marquis

by Harold Frederic

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Various Authors

by Kate Trimble Sharber

by Charles King

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

by Edward Payson Roe

by Mark Twain

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Henry A. (Henry Augustus) Shute

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Richard Le Gallienne

by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter

by Mark Twain

by Various Authors

by Robert Grant

by William Dean Howells

by Henry James

by Benjamin Wood

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Ezra Pound

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Martha Finley

by Arthur Cheney Train

by Robert Alexander Wason

by Geraldine Bonner

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

by Helen Keller

by St. George Rathborne

by Martha Finley

by Earl Derr Biggers

by Opie Percival Read

by James Otis

by Hildegard G. Frey

by John Habberton

by Max Brand

by Alice B. Emerson

by John Habberton

by Frederick H. Dewey

by Donald Ferguson

by Day Kellogg Lee

by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

by Lizzie Bates

by William Dean Howells

by Margaret Penrose

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Upton Sinclair

by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

by Edward Bellamy

by Beatrice Larned Massey

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Bret Harte

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Rupert Hughes

by Ben Hecht, Maxwell Bodenheim

by Elizabeth Fry Page

by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

by William Dean Howells