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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 Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore

by A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

by Ruthe S. Wheeler

by Frank R. Stockton

by Robert Sheckley

by Bret Harte

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Geraldine Bonner

by Albert Payson Terhune

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by H. K. (Harvey King) Shackleford

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Edith Wharton

by Eugene Field

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Charles Miner Thompson

by James Henry Foss

by Henry Van Dyke

by Edward Stratemeyer

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Various Authors

by Harry Castlemon

by Zora Neale Hurston

by Max Brand

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Frederick Orin Bartlett

by Nora Perry

by James Lane Allen

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Inez Haynes Gillmore

by Edith Wharton

by Robert E. (Robert Elliott) Speer

by Various Authors

by Raymond Z. (Raymond Zinke) Gallun

by Bret Harte

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Sue Greenleaf

by Elijah Kellogg

by William Dean Howells

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Mark Overton

by Carolyn Wells

by Susan Warner

by Katharine Haviland-Taylor

by Brand Whitlock

by Clare Sheridan

by Clifford D. Simak

by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

by Francis Lynde

by Margaret Penrose

by Augusta Huiell Seaman

by Susan Warner

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Arthur Preston Hankins

by William Dean Howells

by Opie Percival Read

by Wallace Irwin

by Susan Warner

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Arlo Bates

by Mark Twain

by Augusta Huiell Seaman

by Henry Richardson Chamberlain

by Edward Willett

by Robert Herrick

by Winston Churchill

by Winston Churchill

by Albert Payson Terhune

by Joaquin Miller

by William R. (William Reynolds) Eyster

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by John Habberton

by Booth Tarkington, Hugh MacNair Kahler, Kenneth Lewis Roberts

by D.C.) Gridiron Club (Washington

by Herbert Baird Stimpson

by Ridgely Torrence

by Charles Battell Loomis

by Rex Beach

by Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius) Sargent

by Bertrand W. Sinclair

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

by John Habberton

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Ernest Hemingway

by Edith Wharton

by Alice Brown

by Sewell Ford

by Temple Bailey

by Carolyn Wells

by Margaret E. Winslow

by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx