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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 Booth Tarkington

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by William MacLeod Raine

by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

by George M. (George Melville) Baker

by Oscar Micheaux

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Richard Harding Davis

by Marion Ames Taggart

by John Henry Goldfrap

by Frederic Stewart Isham

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by Burt L. Standish

by Marah Ellis Ryan

by Henry Wilton Thomas

by St. George Rathborne

by Edgar Saltus

by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by William Dean Howells

by Prentiss Ingraham

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by Harold Bell Wright

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

by Samuel Merwin

by George Van Schaick

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Randall Garrett

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

by Alice B. Emerson

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Cy Warman

by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

by Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster

by Benjamin Franklin

by Retta B. Babcock

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Henry Van Dyke

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Heman White Chaplin

by Richard Harding Davis

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Inez Haynes Gillmore

by Prentiss Ingraham

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Henry Blake Fuller

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Arthur D. Howden (Arthur Douglas Howden) Smith

by William Carlos Williams

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Helen Beecher Long

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Booth Tarkington

by George Gibbs

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

by Winston Churchill

by Winston Churchill

by Augustus Thomas

by Mark Twain

by Thomas Nelson Page

by John Ames Mitchell

by Carolyn Wells

by Kate Sanborn

by Louis Bromfield

by Christy Mathewson

by Laura Lee Hope

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Mark Twain

by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

by Jeanne Judson

by Mark Twain

by St. George Rathborne

by Ring Lardner

by H. Beam Piper

by Albert W. Aiken

by James Oliver Curwood

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson

by John Henry Goldfrap

by Henry Van Dyke

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

by Lester Chadwick

by Richard McKenna

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Madeline Leslie

by Edith Barnard Delano

by Jack London

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by William MacLeod Raine

by Alice B. Emerson

by Albert Walter Tolman

by Bertha B. (Bertha Browning) Cobb, Ernest Cobb

by Miriam Michelson

by Ruth Brown MacArthur