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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 Homer Greene

by Lester Shepard Parker

by Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Jack London

by Sumner Charles Britton

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Willard F. Baker

by Charles King

by Franklin W. Dixon

by Bret Harte

by Lydia Maria Child

by Various Authors

by Bret Harte

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by James Willard Schultz

by Lawrence J. Leslie

by Harry Harrison

by Edgar Lee Masters

by George Washington Cable

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Norman Duncan

by Fannie Hurst

by Thomas Wallace Knox

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Elizabeth Robins

by Alice Brown

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Margaret Vandercook

by Martha Finley

by George William Curtis

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Katherine Stokes

by William Alexander Caruthers

by Frank Andrew Munsey

by Oliver Optic

by Alice Duer Miller

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Mark Twain

by Gwendolen Overton

by Harry Castlemon

by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

by James Russell Lowell

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Henry Herbert Knibbs

by Laura Lee Hope

by Harry Castlemon

by Frank Harris

by Edward Stratemeyer

by William Tenn

by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

by Mary White Ovington

by Sophie Swett

by Edward Willett

by Prentiss Ingraham

by B. M. Bower

by Allen Chapman

by John G. Neihardt

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by George Cary Eggleston

by Mark Twain

by Self-made man

by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

by William Dean Howells

by Ross Kay

by Henry David Thoreau

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Margaret Vandercook

by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

by Wallace Irvin

by Hamilton Wright Mabie

by Oliver Optic

by Howard Roger Garis

by Eugene Field

by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Ray Bradbury

by Jr. Sam Merwin

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

by Charles Battell Loomis

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Day Keene

by Raymond E. Banks

by Ben Ames Williams

by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

by Robert Herrick

by Harry Castlemon

by William J. Kountz

by Rudyard Kipling

by Winston Churchill

by Louisa May Alcott

by Bertrand W. Sinclair