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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 M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Agnes Repplier

by Edward Bellamy

by Mark Twain

by Winston Churchill

by Elizabeth Gray Potter, Mabel Thayer Gray

by J. W. Duffield

by Cornelia L. (Cornelia Louisa) Tuthill

by Harry Castlemon

by Brander Matthews

by Rex Beach

by Margaret Penrose

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Mark Twain

by Margaret Penrose

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by William Dean Howells

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by William Dean Howells

by James Lane Allen

by Walter Aimwell

by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

by Honoré Morrow

by Maxwell Bodenheim

by Francis Lynde

by B. M. Bower

by Winston Churchill

by Laura Lee Hope

by Waldo David Frank

by Evelyn Raymond

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Arthur L. (Arthur Livermore) Meserve

by Upton Sinclair

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Walter Aimwell

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Frank V. Webster

by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

by Mark Twain

by Burt L. Standish

by Adeline M. (Adeline Margaret) Teskey

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Jack London

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Vardis Fisher

by Kirk Munroe

by Mark Twain

by Roy Norton

by Louisa May Alcott

by Zane Grey

by Holman Day

by Louisa May Alcott

by Susan Glaspell

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Jack London

by Jack London

by Montague Glass

by Carolyn Wells

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Paul Elmer More, Corra Harris

by Stephen Crane

by Alice Turner Curtis

by Myrtle Reed

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Edith Birkhead

by Herman Melville

by Ernest Hemingway

by Thomas Paine

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Henry James

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Hamlin Garland

by John Jacob Astor

by Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas) Martin

by Upton Sinclair

by Henry Adams

by Zane Grey

by Jr. John Fox

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Henry Timrod

by Anne Warner

by Mary Austin

by Winston Churchill

by Stephen Crane

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

by Richard Harding Davis

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Edith K. (Edith Kellogg) Dunton

by William Allen White

by Zane Grey

by Bret Harte