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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 George W. (George Washington) Ogden

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Clara Louise Burnham

by Mabel C. Hawley

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by George William Curtis

by Various Authors

by Henry Slesar

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by B. M. Bower

by Francis Parkman

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Dane Coolidge

by Josephine Chase

by Henry James

by Laura Lee Hope

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Various Authors

by Clyde Fitch

by Burt L. Standish

by Carolyn Wells

by Grace Brooks Hill

by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

by John Esten Cooke

by Frank V. Webster

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard

by Mary Johnston

by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alice Brown, Louise Imogen Guiney

by Marion Ames Taggart

by Howard Browne

by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Various Authors

by Washington Irving

by Melville Davisson Post

by Mark Twain

by Victor G. Durham

by Stephen Crane

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Archibald Clavering Gunter

by Mark Twain

by Holman Day

by Annie Hamilton Donnell

by William Dean Howells

by John Henry Goldfrap

by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger

by Marshall Saunders

by Edward W. Ludwig

by Laura Lee Hope

by Winston Churchill

by Walter Fenton Mott

by Harry Castlemon

by Walter Prichard Eaton

by Randall Parrish

by Stewart Edward White

by Edward Stratemeyer

by James Blish

by G. Frank (George Frank) Lydston

by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Martha Finley

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

by Warren H. (Warren Hastings) Miller

by Andrew J. Offutt

by Oliver Optic

by Theodore L. Thomas

by Winston Churchill

by Cy Warman

by W. Crispin (William Crispin) Sheppard

by Frank Norris

by Upton Sinclair

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Emily Dickinson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by William Dean Howells

by John Esten Cooke

by Oliver Optic

by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

by H. Beam Piper

by Carl Sandburg

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Ingersoll Lockwood

by Henry James

by Phillis Wheatley

by Washington Irving

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Edgar Allan Poe

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Emily Dickinson
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by Benjamin Franklin

by Jack London

by David Graham Phillips

by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

by Mark Twain

by Helen Hunt Jackson