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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 Bertha B. (Bertha Browning) Cobb, Ernest Cobb

by Miriam Michelson

by Ruth Brown MacArthur

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by Robert Frost

by Willa Cather

by Vachel Lindsay

by Alice Turner Curtis
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by Benjamin Franklin

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Herman Melville

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by John Jay Chapman

by George Washington Plunkitt

by Edith Wharton

by Charles Neville Buck

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Julian Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Thornton Wilder

by Mabel Osgood Wright

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe) Howe, Annie Fields

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Mayne Reid

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by B. M. Bower

by William P. (William Pendleton) Chipman

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Brand Whitlock

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Charles Godfrey Leland

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by Bayard Taylor

by Horace Annesley Vachell

by Sarah Orne Jewett, active 19th century Frances Lee, C. S. Sleight

by Mark Twain

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Mark Twain

by Zona Gale

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Thomas K. Holmes

by Owen Johnson

by Marion Harland

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Herbert Quick

by Lester Chadwick

by George S. (George Samuel) Schuyler

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Andy Adams

by Donald Ogden Stewart

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Mary Johnston

by Nell Speed

by John Philip Sousa

by William Dean Howells

by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

by George Madden Martin

by Frank Gee Patchin

by Mark Twain

by Christopher Morley, Bart Haley

by Bret Harte

by Jacob Abbott

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett

by Geraldine Bonner

by Geraldine Bonner

by S. S. Van Dine

by Various Authors

by Owen Johnson

by Agnes Repplier

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Charles Dudley Warner

by E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd) Smith

by Oliver Optic

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

by William Dean Howells

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by David Graham Phillips

by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson

by Frank J. Webb

by Louisa May Alcott

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Laura Lee Hope

by Dane Coolidge

by Frank N. (Frank Nash) Westcott

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Sherwood Anderson

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Charles King

by Robert Grant

by William Makepeace Thayer

by Edward Sylvester Ellis