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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 John Reed Scott

by Cyrus Townsend Brady

by William MacLeod Raine

by William Dean Howells

by Meredith Nicholson

by Eliza Calvert Hall

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by James Russell Lowell

by Henry David Thoreau

by Susan Coolidge

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Henry David Thoreau

by Mark Twain

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Emerson Hough

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Henry Bryan Binns

by George Thompson

by Hugo Münsterberg

by William Dean Howells

by Louisa May Alcott

by Mark Twain

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Winston Churchill

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Various Authors

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Amy Lowell

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Edith Wharton

by Washington Irving

by Stewart Edward White

by Edward William Bok

by Washington Irving

by Will C. (Will Croft) Barnes

by Frederik Pohl

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Edith Wharton

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Sidney Lanier

by William Gilmore Simms

by Willis George Emerson

by Edward Bellamy

by Abby Morton Diaz

by Alice Brown

by Louisa May Alcott

by Mark Twain

by Helen Hunt Jackson

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Zane Grey

by Ayn Rand

by Sidney Lanier

by Sherwood Anderson

by Ambrose Bierce

by George William Curtis

by Leona Dalrymple

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Mark Twain

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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by Henry Seidel Canby

by Byrd Spilman Dewey

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by B. M. Bower

by Irving Bacheller

by Finley Peter Dunne

by Nell Speed

by Rebecca Harding Davis

by Horace Elisha Scudder

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by B. M. Bower

by Floyd Dell

by Ray Bradbury

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Gouverneur Morris

by Edgar Lee Masters

by Ruth McEnery Stuart

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Mayne Reid

by John Kendrick Bangs

by John Hay

by Various Authors

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Bret Harte

by Harold MacGrath

by Laura Lee Hope

by B. M. Bower

by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

by Harriet Stark