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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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A Pushcart at the Curb
by John Dos Passos
The Man Who Couldn't Sleep
by Arthur Stringer
The secret of the old mill
by Franklin W. Dixon
How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887
by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There
by Harriet E. Wilson
English Hours
by Henry James
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
by Margaret Fuller
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Waifs and strays [part 1]
by O. Henry
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories
by Bret Harte
The Rat Race
by Jay Franklin
Margaret Smith's Journal, and Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
The Lead of Honour
by Norval Richardson
'Charge It': Keeping Up With Harry
by Irving Bacheller
They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming
by Upton Sinclair
The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Her Lord and Master
by Martha Morton
The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
by Mayne Reid
The Mysterious Rider
by Zane Grey
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign
by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
The Red City: A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington
by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
A Texas Matchmaker
by Andy Adams
Cabin Fever
by B. M. Bower
Wounds in the rain: War stories
by Stephen Crane
I and My Chimney
by Herman Melville
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 2
by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
Under the Redwoods
by Bret Harte
A son of the city : A story of boy life
by Herman Gastrell Seely
Wildfire
by Zane Grey
The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars
by Harold Frederic
Half Portions
by Edna Ferber
The Bobbsey Twins Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out
by Laura Lee Hope
Dust
by E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius, Marcet Haldeman-Julius
Island Tales / On the Makaloa Mat
by Jack London
The Kentons
by William Dean Howells
Autres Temps... 1916
by Edith Wharton
In a new world : or, Among the gold-fields of Australia
by Jr. Horatio Alger
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 10 The Opinionator
by Ambrose Bierce
Brave Tom; Or, The Battle That Won
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Polly and Her Friends Abroad
by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Trumps
by George William Curtis
The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Quotes and Images From The Works of Charles Dudley Warner
by Charles Dudley Warner
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
by Jackson Gregory
Gaslight Sonatas
by Fannie Hurst
My Lady of the North
by Randall Parrish
When I Was a Little Girl
by Zona Gale
More Portmanteau Plays
by Stuart Walker
Between Whiles
by Helen Hunt Jackson
Kennedy Square
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Fortune Hunter
by David Graham Phillips
Love Stories
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Episodes in Van Bibber's Life
by Richard Harding Davis
Between Friends
by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Captain's Toll-Gate
by Frank R. Stockton
Ben, the Luggage Boy; Or, Among the Wharves
by Jr. Horatio Alger
Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War
by Kirk Munroe
Within The Enemy's Lines
by Oliver Optic
The Trail Horde
by Charles Alden Seltzer
The Black Riders, and Other Lines
by Stephen Crane
Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends. A sequel to Mildred's married life.
by Martha Finley
Letters from a Son to His Self-Made Father Being the Replies to Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
by Charles Eustace Merriman
The Strength of the Pines
by Edison Marshall
Frances of the Ranges; Or, The Old Ranchman's Treasure
by Amy Bell Marlowe
Labyrinth
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
The Flying Girl and Her Chum
by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
The Real Man
by Francis Lynde
Sense from Thought Divide
by Mark Clifton
Wilt Thou Torchy
by Sewell Ford
Westways: A Village Chronicle
by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
A Prairie Infanta
by Eva Wilder Brodhead
The Bad Man: A Novel
by Charles Hanson Towne, Porter Emerson Browne
The best man
by Grace Livingston Hill
Herbert Carter's Legacy; Or, the Inventor's Son
by Jr. Horatio Alger
The Real Dope
by Ring Lardner
By The Sea 1887
by Heman White Chaplin
A Foregone Conclusion
by William Dean Howells
Erskine Dale—Pioneer
by Jr. John Fox
The Vertical City
by Fannie Hurst
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
by Alice Turner Curtis
Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life
by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson
In The Valley Of The Shadow
by Josephine Daskam Bacon
Buying a Horse
by William Dean Howells
Ironheart
by William MacLeod Raine
The Efficiency Expert
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
by Oliver Optic
Michael O'Halloran
by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Worst Boy in Town
by John Habberton
The Sagebrusher: A Story of the West
by Emerson Hough
The High School Pitcher; or, Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond
by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Zigzag Journeys in the White City. With Visits to the Neighboring Metropolis
by Hezekiah Butterworth
Robert Hardy's Seven Days: A Dream and Its Consequences
by Charles M. Sheldon
Miss Ludington's Sister
by Edward Bellamy
Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems
by James Whitcomb Riley
Taboo A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
by James Branch Cabell
The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes; or, On the Trail of the Iroquois
by St. George Rathborne