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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 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by Alice Brown

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Roland Ashford Phillips

by B. M. Bower

by Beatrice Harraden

by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins

by Mark Twain

by Blythe Harding

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Rupert Hughes

by Frank R. Stockton

by Earl Derr Biggers

by Harry Castlemon

by Laura Lee Hope

by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre

by Thomas A. Faulkner

by Alice Duer Miller

by Jean Webster

by Jack London

by James Russell Lowell

by George Randolph Chester

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Robert Ames Bennet

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Mark Twain

by Washington Irving

by Daniel Carter Beard

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Willa Cather

by Henry James

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by Kurt Vonnegut

by Edward Everett Hale

by Zane Grey

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Unknown, Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Clarence Edward Mulford

by Andy Adams

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Winston Churchill

by Robert Herrick

by Grace MacGowan Cooke

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

by Philip K. Dick

by Joel Chandler Harris

by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

by Henry Sydnor Harrison

by George Van Schaick

by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

by Franklin W. Dixon

by Owen Wister

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Bret Harte

by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Grace Brooks Hill

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by Winifred Hawkridge Dixon

by Booth Tarkington

by Bret Harte

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Zora Neale Hurston

by William Douglas O'Connor

by Frank R. Stockton

by Lucy Fitch Perkins

by Josh Billings

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Bret Harte

by Edward Everett Hale

by John Habberton

by Frederic Remington

by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

by Mary Johnston

by Various Authors

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by William Dean Howells

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by Edwin Arlington Robinson

by Jacob Abbott

by Grace Miller White

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by D. W. (David W.) Belisle

by Hamlin Garland

by James Whitcomb Riley