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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 Louisa May Alcott

by Bertrand W. Sinclair

by Frederic Jesup Stimson

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Upton Sinclair

by Paul Leicester Ford

by Zane Grey

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Emma Goldman

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

by Sophie May

by George Cary Eggleston

by Margaret Vandercook

by Lilian Bell

by Paul Leicester Ford

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Mark Twain

by Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner

by Henry Wallace Phillips

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Henry James

by Gelett Burgess

by Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

by Richard Henry Dana

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Richard Harding Davis

by Gilbert Seldes

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Edward Eggleston

by Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Edward Alfred Steiner

by Rupert Hughes

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Alice B. Emerson

by John R. (John Roy) Musick

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Randolph Silliman Bourne

by Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower

by Ward Moore

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Timothy Templeton

by Bret Harte

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

by Jack London

by Eleanor Gates

by David Graham Phillips

by Jack London, Anna Strunsky Walling

by Henry Peterson

by Charles Neville Buck

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Mark Twain

by Thomas Nelson Page

by B. K. (Blackwood Ketcham) Benson

by James Whitcomb Riley

by William Rounseville Alger, Jr. Horatio Alger

by Rupert Hughes

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by William Dean Howells

by William Dean Howells

by Bertrand W. Sinclair

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by B. M. Bower

by Miriam Coles Harris

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Gouverneur Morris

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Sewell Ford

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Amy Brooks

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Ambrose Bierce

by Lydia Maria Child

by Stewart Edward White

by Laura Lee Hope

by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by Owen Wister

by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Ray Bradbury

by Ruel Perley Smith

by Sara Ware Bassett

by Edison Marshall

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice